The British Medical Association has called for a complete ban on alcohol advertising and marketing, from television advertising to the sponsorship of music festivals and football by drinks brands, as part of a nine-point plan to tackle problems including binge drinking by young people. I think this would be taking the nanny state too far. Local government, the police and education authorities should deal with the problem of binge drinking and central Government should not get involved other than to raise the tax on all drinks.|||The best thing to do is to increase the tax on Alcopop and other such rubbish whilst reducing the tax on a pint of beer or bitter, thereby helping the pub trade.
The trouble with New Labour is they have concentrated their efforts on taxing traditional drinkers and on middle class wine consumption, when what they should really be taxing are cheap cider and the Bicardi Breezer Generation.
A lot of the problem is under age drinking, and it is these people the Government should be targeting, as well as young people who binge drink and not the people who go down to the pub and enjoy a pint of bitter or beer, it's bad enough that they can't enjoy a smoke anymore without taxing alcohol to the extent where they can't afford a pint.
As for banning alcohol advertising it is a draconian measure, and adults in Britain are more than capable of making their own minds up with regard to what they drink without New Labour's and the BMA's nanny state politics.|||It will make drinking seem forbidden and cooler. Kids have been drinking for the past several thousand years. Its not like its something parents havent learned to deal with.|||Well considering everyone is going about drunk acting like idiots and brainwashed to what is going on around them then yes I agree with it. it won't happen though as the government want it this way, that is why they regulate what hard drugs come into this country and illegally tax them accordingly, to keep the nation docile and blind to the fraud that is happening around us.
It is the media and tv in general which makes children want to drink, they believe it dictates what is real life, but it is in fact the tv which creates the lifestyle they aspire to follow.|||I totally agree with you, i don't think its going to stop young kids binge drinking at all, if they want it , they WILL get their hands on it!|||Good. I think drink is ruining every country in the world. (I'm not British)
Every night in our town from about 6pm onwards, drunks are fallin' around, I saw a young'een about 12 have a mug of vodka. So yes. Drink is bad, ban it all. My motto.|||First they came for the smokers and banned that in pubs, then they came for the fatties and tried to ban junk food adds, now they are picking on the drinkers. What next? I thought we lived in a free world? My pub is already empty of drinkers because they banned smokers, now they are going to turn (what's left) of British pubs into colourless sheds with no bar mats and not allowing whisky labels to be displayed. It's like George Orwell's 1984, plain and bland.
They might as well ban alcohol and be done with it, that's what they are aiming to do anyway! Turning us all into little robots they are.|||No there shouldn't be a ban on alcohol advertising, but it should be severley curtailed. For example if there's no current limits on tv advertising, then I'd say there shouldn't be any alcohol ads this side of 10pm. However when you're going to allow Carslberg to sponsor the FA - what can you do?|||I don't agree with a total ban on alcohol advertising but what I do think is that supermarkets should be stopped from selling alcohol so cheaply as a lot are selling at a loss to get more people into the supermarket they should also be made to have a completely separate section for the sell of alcohol and also I think that Clubs and Pubs that do the Happy Hours and buy one get one free should also be stopped from this in my opinion this is where a lot of the problems are caused and why you get so much binge drinking|||Drinking has got out of hand and it's about time that it was recognised. Smokers have had several years of bad press for their anti social behaviour, and drinkers are now in line for that.
Mess in the streets, damage, casualty department problems, police problems, etc. Yes, it really is time that drinking is seen as anti social, and as such should not be advertised.|||Alcohol is a massive part of British culture. Without it a lot of people would be less social. For centuries people have drunk alcohol in Britain and banning the advertising of it is unnecessary. If it were not advertised people wouldn't drink less. The only result of banning alcohol advertising would be a decrease in the profits of big name alcohol brands and an increase in the smaller brands.
Smoking is not as big a part of our culture as alcohol so the ban on advertising tobacco was lickely to have an effect on tobacco sales but i don't believe the same would happen if the advertising of alcohol was banned as, like I said earlier, drinking alcohol is a cultural thing and people aren't lickely to stop drinking it anytime soon, adverts or no adverts.|||A complete ban on advertising and promotion would be great but we all no that it will never happen. Why cant we make people who get drunk and cause problems responsible for their actions?. Make them pay for being treated in hospital, sentence them more severly when they fight or damage someone or something.Birch the B########d's. I dont drink because I dont like it but it doesn't stop me from enjoying myself and yes I do smoke but I wish I didn't.|||It's a step too far. But it's not as offensive as the proposal of raising the tax, using a 'binge drinking epidemic' as an excuse to reap more money from the unsuspecting public.
When Jamie Oliver was young, he would have always chosen the fatty pizza and the chips at school. In the same way, when Gordon Brown was a teenager, he would have got very drunk on cheap booze, and when he was a student I expect he was even sick in a nightclub. It's just middle aged men who are bitter at their loss of youth trying to stop the young from being young. There have ALWAYS been drunk people on the streets on a Friday night, and if there is a problem now, it's down to haphazard parenting, not advertising or price. Let people live for ****'s sake!
And to all you OAPs agreeing with the ban: when you were 19 like me, how would you have felt if the government had started trying to price you out of getting merry now and then? Tell me that if you were my age again, you would still want it banned.|||I disagree with bringing in the ban.
They should bring down the tax on pub alcohol and increase the tax on alcohol which is sold in shops. This way, kids will find it difficult to get alcohol. If they do get their hands on it, it will only be a small amount because they wont be able to afford more. Pubs can also control how much people drink by telling people to leave if they've had too much.|||Yes I agree with it, when we are in a position where a 21 year old woman has become the UK's youngest liver transplant patient purely as a result of binge drinking, which must have been going on since she was a child.
The plain fact is that people sometimes need a certain amount of nannying. They are given gentle nudges by increases in excise duties or "sin taxes", but it isn't enough. If they aren't taking the hint, the state needs to step in.
The public smoking ban reduced the number of heart attacks in Scotland by 50% in its first year, so these measures have a real and positive effect.|||Even as a great fan of beer, I can't see a problem with it and think it probably would help stop binge drinking.
Why do you need advertising; I go to a pub, buy a pint, if I like it I buy it again.
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