This study deals with the effectiveness of regulations on advertising in the context of obesity. Advertisements' effects on people required the commercial promotion of various products associated with human and public health to be subjected to public or sectoral regulations. Obesity has been accepted as a public health problem, or even a pandemic in recent years. It is thought that advertisements of food, whose "over-consumption is not recommended" have a role in the rise of obesity. Therefore, RTÜK (Radio and Television Supreme Council) introduced regulations, which necessitated the insertion of warning messages in the form of supers in certain food advertisements. However, the effect of these supers has not been questioned. In this study, the capacity of the warnings in the supers to affect the consumer is investigated with qualitative research based on in-depth interviews. Interviews were conducted with women, who are addressed as the primary decision-makers in domestic food consumption by various studies. 11 interviewers were actualized using the snowball technique. During the online interviews, a link was sent to the interviewer and a 2-minute advertising tape was run, and then the interview was conducted after obtaining approval for recording. Analysis of the interviews indicated that warnings through supers were not noticed, and the main reason for this was the speed and size of the supers. Thus, unnoticed messages can't affect the target audience. As a result, it has been determined that warnings in the supers introduced in advertising regulations have no function in preventing obesity by raising awareness about foods that are not recommended for over-consumption.
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