Use It At Your Own Risk

Considering the fact that cigarette and alcohol advertisements were permissible in the beginning of of
the 19th century, Ban of them is said to be a relatively new topic of discussion fueled only in the last few
decades. What has changed from the era where they could be advertised and the period of the ban is
not cigarette or alcohol itself, nor hcan it be argued that the public adopted negative views of them
while they thought differently in the past. Instead, governments and the hegemony they exercise have
evolved into a Foucaltian sense that hegemony is now willing to get deeper into every individual.
However, supporters put forth two reasons for the ban although neither can be logically defended,
though.
Ban defenders holds the opinion that cigarette and alcohol advertisements should be banned just
because consumption of them is harmful to human health. Nevertheless, it is not the government's
business to force people to protect their health. That is to say, the government is held responsible to
provide the facilities where people can recieve medical care, although it should be left to people's own
decisions when and how to benefit from health services or not to do so at all, or even damaging their
own bodies on purpose if we believe that the body belongs to the individual but not to the state or the
society.
The second reason claimed by ban supportors is that people do not have the right to risk others' health,
so their consumption should be restricted to personally owned places. nonetheless, they seem to miss
the point that millions of cars, buses and other kinds of motor vehicles all add to the emission of harmful
gases to the atmosphere, which damages not only other people but also animals and plants --and even
the nature at large- for longer periods of time and perminantly.
What is clear from the points made above is the fact that ban of cigarette and alcohol advertisements
has no room in the modern society which is established based on liberties. We need to learn to be able
to say, "use it at your own risk."