Should alcohol advertising on television be banned?

Question

meaning...
-no alcohol advertisements on any commericial or non-commerical

-advertisements will be defined as the paid sponsorship slots availble during all for profit or non-commercial television and radio-broadcasting time slots

-enforcement will be through the department of justice

-any and all existing state or federal laws conflicitng with this will be null and void



or is this absolutely crazy?

Answer 1

The censorship won't do anything. There will be other commercials that will have a product that influences the mass amount of people as well. If you study Mass Communication... you will find that the alcohol commercials basically run the show when it comes to football. Think about it, what commercial comes to mind when you think of Football... Budweiser! I don't think it could possibly happen to have all alcoholic advertisements cleared from television.

Answer 2

I think it's a great idea because neither myself or anyone I know really buys a certain type of alcoholic bev. based on advertisements. Alcohol kills more people every year than say marijuana. Still one is totally illegal and the other is given million dollar commercials during super bowls and other sporting events. Smokes are gone from most advertisement why not this?

Answer 3

Alcohol ads were banned for a long time; now they're back. That's okay because our leaders drink alcohol. The ads tell guys to drink and gorgeous women will flock to you, other guys will admire you, and your life will be perfect. They don't seem to also tell you about driving drunk and killing people with your car, being arrested and having your driver's license taken away. Drunks are funny, anyway, right? Check out any TV show. Tobacco companies are not allowed to advertise on TV and smokers are treated as second-class citizens, sent outside to smoke in designated areas like dogs needing to take a dump. Banning alcohol ads won't make any difference in the number of people killed by drunk drivers, nor will it lower the amount of drinking done by underage people. But it WILL stop the portrayal by the liquor companies that drinking is "cool". Smoking's not "cool"; drinking's not "cool". Ban both or ban neither.

Answer 4

If they ban alcohol commercials- I would think it only fair to ban cigarette commercials too- another bad habit, addicting substance, and dangerous to millions of people. When you start banning ads you walk a fine line, of what is fair, because when you ban one thing it opens the floodgates for other "harmful" things that are advertised on TV such as gambling resorts, fast food, etc. I don't know any background information on your question so its hard to comment too much other than I think banning alcohol ads might sound good in theory, but in practice it would be somewhat unfair on varying levels. Sure it might curb SOME underage drinking and driving under the influence, but it will not elliminate it enough to warrant such a drastic move. Lack of advertising will not put people in the dark about the availability of alcohol and the effects it produces. I think it would be better to spend time and money on other programs that would be more effective and just in combating our alcohol-related problems in America.

Answer 5

Alcohol advertising should be allowed after 9pm when only adults should be watching television. They should also contain a warning at the top about the dangers of drinking too much. But to ban it outright is just political-correctness gone wrong. People can drink; they just need to learn to drink in moderation.

Answer 6

that's the rules in New Zealand and it seems to work ok (except it is enforced by broadcasting standards authority not dept of justice)

= good for impressionable people who are sucked in my ads
= bad because alcohol used to do alot of sponsorship of sports events etc which was lost

Answer 7

they stopped advertising tobacco ads along time ago, but the use of tobacco product have increased. maybe if they would have continued the ads and followed what the alcohol commercials are doing now that it is detrimental to you're health (alcoholism is down) maybe tobacco use would be down.

Answer 8

I dont think its crazy,I thought it was banned some time back,except when they have the football games, they let anyone with enough $$$, have a couple minutes to advertize just about anything.......

Answer 9

It can be banned on TV. However, it still be existing in anywhere else to affect our life.

Answer 10

You said commercial or non-chimerical. So that would delete most movies also. It's crazy.