dibo
Well-Known Member
link seems to be broken. try http://www.zootle.net/afda/share-and-enjoy.shtml
complete with recording of 'share and enjoy'!
back on topic however, i think alcohol advertising will eventually go the way of cigarette advertising, and i can't really see a bad point to that.
alcohol and tobacco between them cause more illness, injury and deaths than all other drugs combined. the alcohol industry is notorious for targeting its products to those who aren't legally allowed to buy them (tell me that the midori or jim beam ads aren't aimed at 15 year old girls and boys respectively).
binge drinking is an enormous problem, and frankly you've only got to look around in bay 16 on a game day to see how so. some people go in and get positively shitfaced. i remember watcing one person so drunk that gravity was trying to make him fall down the stairs, but owing to his seriously altered state he more poured down them.
anyone who knows me knows that i'm not a wowser, i very much enjoy a few beers, but there's a limit.
while banning alcohol advertising won't make binge drinking go away overnight, over time it will have an effect. look at the change that banning cigarette advertising (and other associated anti-smoking laws) has made.
cigarettes can no longer be sold as a lifestyle product. it seems to be far less cool to smoke than it was when i was a kid and basically every adult i knew smoked. most of all, smoking rates for adults have dropped significantly.
banning alcohol advertising, along with more careful enforcement of RSA and smarter management and policing of venues will (i think) have a positive effect.
as for the loss of ad revenue - banning benson and hedges didn't kill off cricket. banning the winfield cup didn't kill off rugby league (the concurrent superleague war nearly did that). there will be a revenue hole, but other companies will come through. the alcohol industry is a big industry, but in terms of GDP it's still only a tiny fraction. there's a lot more money available out there.
complete with recording of 'share and enjoy'!
back on topic however, i think alcohol advertising will eventually go the way of cigarette advertising, and i can't really see a bad point to that.
alcohol and tobacco between them cause more illness, injury and deaths than all other drugs combined. the alcohol industry is notorious for targeting its products to those who aren't legally allowed to buy them (tell me that the midori or jim beam ads aren't aimed at 15 year old girls and boys respectively).
binge drinking is an enormous problem, and frankly you've only got to look around in bay 16 on a game day to see how so. some people go in and get positively shitfaced. i remember watcing one person so drunk that gravity was trying to make him fall down the stairs, but owing to his seriously altered state he more poured down them.
anyone who knows me knows that i'm not a wowser, i very much enjoy a few beers, but there's a limit.
while banning alcohol advertising won't make binge drinking go away overnight, over time it will have an effect. look at the change that banning cigarette advertising (and other associated anti-smoking laws) has made.
cigarettes can no longer be sold as a lifestyle product. it seems to be far less cool to smoke than it was when i was a kid and basically every adult i knew smoked. most of all, smoking rates for adults have dropped significantly.
banning alcohol advertising, along with more careful enforcement of RSA and smarter management and policing of venues will (i think) have a positive effect.
as for the loss of ad revenue - banning benson and hedges didn't kill off cricket. banning the winfield cup didn't kill off rugby league (the concurrent superleague war nearly did that). there will be a revenue hole, but other companies will come through. the alcohol industry is a big industry, but in terms of GDP it's still only a tiny fraction. there's a lot more money available out there.
