Nowadays a large amount of advertising aimed at children should be banned because of the negative effects. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Public concern has risen about whether advertising aimed at

children

should be banned because of

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negative effects. Since we are living in the information age, everything is digital - including

advertisements

. I tend to believe that advertising aimed at

children

should be prohibited and in

this

essay, I will explain why.

To begin

with,

children

are easily influenced by

advertisements

.

Due to

the fact that there are numerous

advertisements

showing up on television

everyday

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and they cannot be skipped,

kids

are forced to watch them.

For instance

, a junk food (chips, hamburgers, fizzy drinks…) commercial showed up on TV.

Children

, especially younger ones, might not know that junk food is unhealthy, or they know, but they are deeply convinced by the commercial;

thus

,

this

could result in the

next

step of asking (or even forcing) parents to buy the unhealthy food or them secretly buying and eating it.

Secondly

, certain

advertisements

put

children

's safety at risk. We often see either a written warning under an advertisement related to

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or extreme sports, which can be written like “do not do

this

at home”, or an oral warning. It is common for

kids

to conceive and think about “what if I do

this

?”.

Consequently

, if

children

, especially ones under ten years old, perceived the message falsely and tried to imitate some dangerous actions done in a commercial, it would be a disaster not only for themselves

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but

also

for parents.

In contrast

, some may think that adverts have a positive side, too. Undeniably, there are a number of

advertisements

that perceive helpful ideas for

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mental growth or possess a good message.

However

, these commercials usually show up in

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specific channels for

kids

, the majority of adverts are still exposed to

children

and may contain a message that

kids

may not understand correctly.

To sum up

, there is ample reason

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that we should prohibit advertising aimed at

children

in terms of the negative influence given to them and safety risks. Since the main idea of

advertisements

is to motivate consumers to purchase them or draw attention to certain actions,

therefore

, adverts surely have a negative impact on

children

.