We can see advertising everywhere around us, on the streets, on television, in magazines and on the radio. Currently, most businesses find different ways to sell their products. Advertising experts try to meet the needs and feelings of young people by making their product attractive and desirable. As a result, this encourages young people to drink alcohol and eat junk food. This essay will explain that advertising increases obesity among young people and encourages them to drink alcohol. Advertising affects youth obesity in different ways. The first is that television advertising increases obesity among young people. For example, television is a way to speak directly to children by showing them unhealthy advertisements. According to Ruskin (2003), in 1977, the National Science Foundation found that advertising was effective in creating desire. As a result, companies are seeing the power of television advertising on young people (Ruskin 2003). As another example, the average American child watches over thousands of hours per year, which means they see thousands of advertisements for fast food and junk food (Ruskin 2003...