Law, Business, and Society 9th Edition by Tony McAdams

Exercise 5

Two-thirds of American adults are either obese or overweight. The rate of overweight children ages 6 to 11 has more than doubled since 1980, and the rate for adolescents has tripled. Timothy Muris, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, objected to proposals to ban television commercials for "junk food" directed at kids: "
Banning junk food ads on kids' programming is impractical, ineffective, and illegal." Explain what Muris meant. See Timothy J. Muris, "Don't Blame TV," The Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2004,