Do we really care?

This weekend during a return trip to Birmingham I had local radio station BRMB playing, during the news segment of the show they reported how a study has shown that most teenagers at the age of 15 have been drunk at least twice, then continued to say how English teenage girls are the worst binge drinkers in the world.

Not five minutes later the adverts were played on the same station and two adverts for alcohol were played, on the same show they were doing studying songs, therefore knowing teenagers were listening. In one hand they are saying how bad the abuse of alcohol is and then advertising it in the next breath.

Adverts for alcohol are also notoriously glamorous

Is it really any surprise that our nation has this problem? When alcohol is advertised everywhere especially at such a young audience?

It was made illegal to advertise cigarettes, and the dangers of alcohol abuse are just as bad, whilst the tax are these narcotics is important for our economy, im sure removing the advertising of these things especially pre-watershed would be a step in the right direction