Advertising campaigns on TV that are targeted at children should be banned. To what extent to you agree or disagree with this opinion? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

We live in a world which is full of advertisements and these adverts are consciously and subconsciously shaping our purchasing habits. Adverts that

target

children, be it on TV, billboards or the internet, should be completely banned as their marketing strategies to

target

children are totally unethical and have detrimental effects on our young generation. In the

first

place, children are not the decision makers and not matured enough to differentiate quality products from low-grade ones. Adverts that are primarily intended for young fail to comply with the very fundamental norm of ethical advertising - to inform people.

For instance

, many chocolate companies make advertisements to allure children and their adverts have more fantasy than facts. Though they know that parents would be the potential purchaser, they try to use the sentiments of children and their desires to trap parents to buy their products. Since

this

is quite obvious that advertisements made for children have an immoral and unacceptable objective, these adverts should not be allowed to be shown in mass media.

Furthermore

, children these days watch TV more than ever before.

This

is why allowing fabricated and immoral adverts would expose them to a pseudo-real world where they would be brainwashed. Childhood is the most precious time for the proper psychological development and

that is

why adverts that

target

children are detrimental to their cognitive development. To conclude, all campaigns and adverts that

target

children have only one thing common - mislead the young, allure them and force their parents to purchase products that they

otherwise

would not have purchased. Those unethical and heinous advertisements must be prohibited on TV by all means.