Could Cereal Mascots be on the way out?

I could care less about the mascots... it annoys the hell out of me when the government tries to control how we live our lives... either by trying to punish industries who are trying to do legitimate business, or punishing the consumers directly through things like cigarette taxes.

Do they still sell Sugar Smacks? I'm tempted to go buy a box, and I don't even like cereal.
 
I'm very conflicted on this issue. On one hand I like the mascots but on the other I don't see why they need to stick around. I'm also conflicted on the "control" issue. Getting rid of the mascots is not controlling how anyone eats but at the same time it doesn't seem necessary.
 
It's not so much the cereal mascots, but the fact that one again people choose to go after the wrong target when attempt to help kids (Rather than say cracking down on neglegent parents).
 
It's hard to tell parents they can't do something without violating freedom of speech.

Outlawing colorful cartoon characters pitching crap to kids? That's easy. If all boxes looked like Grape Nuts, the thought being, kids won't be so inclined to ask for the sugar treats.
 
I get that kids can be demanding and can become obese pretty easily, but the fact that there are plenty of kids in good/great shape indicates that it is possible to keep kids from overindulging in junk.
 
Cereal mascots are still heavily used, on an given Saturday morning or during any part of the day on any of the networks airing cartoons you will see Tony the Tiger, Sonny, the Trix rabbit, The Flintstones, Tucan Sam (and nephews), as well as a number of other cereal mascots on television promoting their brand of morning time goodness.

One mascot I haven't seen for quite some time would be the frog from Honey Smacks, one of my favorite cereals, it feels like forever since I've seen him grace my television screen, there are others too. But as a whole I would say that cereal mascots are alive and well in todays market and aren't going anywhere, or at least I hope they aren't.
 
Ah, that would make more sense than I what I thought of the kids being able to buy it for themselves somehow. I've heard of Joe Camel and I still remember seeing him when I was really little and my Dad was buying tobacco products. I'm not too surprised that they did get rid of him since it was making smoking look more cool for kids due to his design. I forgot about how showing smoking on-screen does often increase the ratings for some films too.

I'm still not too upset over this issue though. I can see why they're doing this, even though I still think that just reducing the amount of junk food kids eat would be better than just doing something like this, but it also helps that I don't think that this will mean that these mascots will disappear completely. I think that they'll just try to reduce the amount of commercial time they take up when kids are usually watching TV.
 
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