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Paper Abstract: Compares several approaches. Public Service Ads aimed at young people. PSA scare tactics. "Just Say No" campaign. Rising problem of drug and alcohol abuse among students. Issue of changing harmful behavior to good behavior. Dealing with peer pressure. Cites inconsistency between government's and TV industry's War Against Drugs. PSA messages versus alcoholic beverage commercials. Paper Introduction: Various groups in recent years have produced public service announcements to be run on television or in print-ad versions to encourage young people not to experiment with drugs. However, according to the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System's report for 1997, nationwide 47.1 percent of students have used marijuana and one in ten of these students tried marijuana before they were thirteen year old. 8.2 percent had used some form of cocaine, 1.1 percent before their thirteenth birthday (Kann et al., 1998, 1). Drug initiation experiences can happen at a very young age are public service ads targeted at youth an effective detriment to drug use? These advertisements are costly, and their effectiveness is often questioned. The empirical data indeed suggests that they are not especially effective, any more than programs such as D.A.R.E. are really Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

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