The government needs to stop their bs....maybe they will earn their salary,this country is screwed up because of nuts like the Kennedy dude,he probably owns a 7-11 too.

Im sick of all this. when i was a kid the loane ranger show and howde dewde use to come on and a ad came on and it said that cigarettes had B12 and it was good for you this was 1964 - 1970 that was a lie and i end up smoking thinking that it was good for me.Stop the lies Stop makeing us sick.

What are you talking about, claiming that cigarettes were advertised on TV in the late 1960s? That's just false; TV ads were banned after cigs were "officially" found harmful in, I believe, 1964.

Correction: cigarette ads weren't banned from tv and radio until 1971. Look it up.

Junk food's as bad for your long-term health as tobacco. You can look that up too...but you probably don't believe in global warming either, right?

I find it insulting that our government finds the need to save us from comercials. Marketing to children is advertising, next toys r us will no longer be able to have toy commercials because some parents dont have the money to buy toys, or they find toys objectional. I think that all parents are aware, and certainly all teenagers that fast food is dangerous for the health. How could we avoid knowing with all of the commercials anf programs, yet we continue to consume it. It is not the governments job to hold our hands and tell us what we may or may not eat, nor to allow us to sue an industry for all its worth because of our own stupidity.

Right on Heather!!
We need to quit blaming everybody else for our life and our problems. Grow up and accept responsibility for eating bad and not exercising . . . After all, it's a free country, right????

Isn't Ted Kennedy the guy who, years ago, drove his car into water trapping a lady in it while he diddled around several hours before going for aid?

I think it's great. I'm tired of religious fanatics preaching that smoking and drinking are evil, yet they head for their 4000 calorie meals with lard and fat after attending church services on Sunday morning. Not to mention, before that they had tons of donuts in the social hall, and a breakfast of bacon, sausage, eggs, gravy, biscuits and butter. It's time to recognize that there's more health concerns for youth than smoking and drinking. This is a good beginning to awareness of the hypocracy that exists in our society.

The FTC, like the rest of the over payed over taxing and in our lives and our faces, needs to go on a diet!!! Now that would be refreshing! ie., Get out of America's way, so it can work!!

That is overpaid government. What's the diff., any way you spell it, the government is no help solving social issues. When the government steps in to help, hold on to your wallet and your little kids and run for the hills!

Enough already! When is this lame ass society of ours going to start taking the parents of these kids to task? Who is supervising what goes in their mouths? The federal government? NOOO, I beleive that particular responsibility lies with the parents. However most of these parents are too busy selfishly living their own lives to spend the amount of time, and give the amount of attention to the children that they brought into this world. What the hell ever happened to accountability?