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It amazes me how many people think marketing is the reason that teenagers use any type of drug. Weed has just become legal in the past couple of decades and wa
by scarface74 4y ago
It amazes me how many people think marketing is the reason that teenagers use any type of drug. Weed has just become legal in the past couple of decades and wasn’t marketed. I assure you that teenagers have been smoking it before then.
- vkou 4y ago> It amazes me how many people think marketing is the reason that teenagers use any type of drug. If marketing doesn't do anything, why was Juul marketing to them? (Bonus points: Why is anyone marketing anything to anyone?) And if it did nothing, then surely banning it would not hurt Juul in the slightest?
- scarface74 4y agoAnd if marketing is required for teenagers to smoke, why is weed so prevalent?
- drugstorecowboy 4y agoI know it's not the point you are trying to make, but whether or not marketing actually does anything isn't a settled question. When company A does marketing and company B doesn't in the same industry, it seems to have some effect, but when neither company does marketing sales don't necessarily go down. Fun fact, the cigarette companies lobbied the government to ban cigarette advertising. That way, none of them would be able to market and get ahead of the others while all of them would save money on the marketing that was no longer needed. A corresponding drop in sales did not occur.