Social networking sites are not holding up their end of the bargain and our youth is paying the price. Currently, more than 300 group pages exist for branded-tobacco. Together they have more than 156,500 “fans” or “followers”. But we don’t know how many of those fans are underage (i.e, not even old enough to smoke!).
We also don’t know who is developing these group pages. Are users making the pages or are the tobacco brands representing themselves? Either way, terms of use are being violated.
“You will not develop or operate a third-party application containing alcohol-related or other mature content (including advertisements) without appropriate age-based restrictions.”
“Ads cannot contain, facilitate, promote, or reference the following…tobacco products…”
It seems like either way, facebook needs to be removing these branded tobacco groups from the network.
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