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FOXNews.com The researchers admit that the correlation between the ads and increased drug use has not been fully established, but the news is enough for National Office of Drug Control Policy Director John P. Walters to want to can the ads and start anew.
"We can do ads that can both excite curiosity when (they're) targeted at too young an age or (that) suggest everybody's doing it, which undermines what we want in changing behavior. So, we need to make sure we're testing (them) and we intend to move the campaign to older teens and target it there," Walters told Fox News.
{just uhm, wondering here, but uhm, doesn't this pretty much openly say that advertising has a direct effect on uhm, moral decision making?
you know...watch the ads, make the choice? make the choice the way the admakers want? hmmm? could there be, can there be, deeper subtexts? larger moral issues than drug use by teens? that are being influenced, shaded,... well heck, controlled, by advertising? ALL advertising? like say, even, CAR advertising? PESTICIDE advertising? PHARMACEUTICAL advertising? FAST FOOD advertising? MOST advertising? SOME? did I miss the class where we covered that? }