Have you ever just sat there and watched Monday night football, or even on a Friday night, watched your favorite NBA team crush the opposing team? While you watch the entertainment, shows are interfered with all types of advertisements. Alcohol ads such as Bud Lite, Miller Lite, Coors, etc, may have an effect on some viewers exposed to the alcohol commercials. Congress is on the movement to ban alcohol advertising from the broadcast media. Never the less will banning alcohol decrease the behavior of peer groups and yourself?
I believe the ban on alcohol advertisements would not do any good in today's society because people would be exposed to alcohol some other way than on the broadcast media. For an example, a person would see one another drinking alcohol on the streets or at special events.
Television is our countries' largest medium. Millions and millions of people see beer and wine advertisements. The government should have a type of censorship which allows broadcast alcohol advertising be aired only at late night hours, knowing young adolescents should be in bed or striving to bed in that time period. Beer and wine ads do make a difference only because that is one of teens' and college students' main source of "having a good time!" If one student sees another student all laid back having fun because they are drunk, that student would probably want to be drunk too.
itics say alcohol commercials are mostly aimed towards the younger crowd of today's society. I believe advertisements for alcohol have already had an effect on young viewers today. Alcohol companies that broadcast their product by television, rad
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