Cigarette Companies Should Not Be Able To Advertise If someone wanted to advertise and promote marijuana, would you approve of that. I doubt it. Now do you approve of cigarette companies advertise and promoting the use of cigarettes, which has nicotine an additive drug, and is known to cause more deaths in America then marijuana does. If cigarette companies are able to advertise they will influence children to smoke, make two much of a prophet on killing people and it is takes up advertising space from honest companies that don't lie like cigarette companies do. So I feel cigarette companies shouldn't be able to advertise. If cigarette