The Influence of Anti-Smoking Media on Teens Introduction Prior - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Influence of Anti-Smoking Media on Teens Introduction Prior - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Influence of Anti-Smoking Media on Teens Introduction Prior to 1964, cigarettes were advertised to children The Cigarette Advertising Code banned advertising to children In 1970, congress passed the Public Health Cigarette
- Prior to 1964, cigarettes were advertised to
children
- The Cigarette Advertising Code banned
advertising to children
- In 1970, congress passed the Public Health
Cigarette Smoking Act ○ Advertisements on television and radio were banned as a result of the act
- Smoking advertisements were replaced with
antismoking advertisements
Introduction
- Alluding to a video game
- The literal written message “Quit
Smoking” appears in small font at the bottom right corner of the ad ○ focus on the underlying message
- Slippery slope fallacy
- Appeal to pathos
- The “Straw City” video alludes to the
childhood nursery rhyme “The three little pigs and the big bad wolf”
- Appeal to pathos
- Appeals to logos
- Advertisers allude to the game Hangman
- “Kick it before it kicks you” slogan
- Advertisers appeal to a fear of death
- “Smokers never win”
- Appeal to pathos
- “Kill a cigarette and save a life,
Yours”
- Advertisers use symbolic expression
- Appeal to pathos
- Allusion to suicide
- Uses symbolic expression
- Appeals to logos
- Appeals to pathos
- “Don’t get hacked”
- Focuses on desire for beauty to gain
audience’s attention
- Appeals to pathos
○ Fear of having teeth that look like those on the right
- Appeal to logos
- Alludes to a beauty ad commonly
found in magazines
- “Your skin” video focuses on the
desire for beauty
- Symbolism
- Appeals to pathos
- Appeals to logos
In order to make a nonsmoking ad effective in influencing the teenage demographic, it is common for advertisers to:
- appeal to logos to inform the audience of the negative outcome of smoking
- appeal to pathos to make the audience feel sympathy and fear from the outcomes of smoking
- use symbolism to emphasize an underlying message that will positively influence the audience
- reference to a desire for beauty
Conclusion
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