Banning Alchohol advertisment in sport.

Recently, in Australia there has been talk of banning alcohol advertising in sport. Mainly because they think it promoted underage drinking.
I personally Think it is both a bad and good idea.
First of all, the sporting venues and whatnot get ALOT of income from these advertisements, and to tell you the truth, I'm pretty sure that alcohol company's do as well. The income they get, goes into paying players, and the sport advertisement. But it also gives the people the idea that drinking alcohol (which, is a drug) is a good thing.

this is a heavily debated topic all over the media in Australia, I'm not sure about other country's. But with the spike in binge drinking they are getting pretty serious, with "Alco pop's" and all that stuff.

What do you think should happen?

 

Teenagers who decide they are (or aren't) responsible enough to drink alcohol at their age aren't going to be swayed by alcohol ads in sports on TV. All this would do is sink that corner of advertising.

 

I have to disagree.
Most of them don't decide, they do it without thinking, which is part of the whole marketing thing. They're not supposed to give a second thought to it, and in most cases they don't.
Yes, it would stink that corner of advertising to some degree, but they still have television advertising, but even without sporting advertisement, they have Billions of revenue flowing in.

 

If you ban alcohol advertisement in sports, they'll get the idea from actual advertisements in between sports. If you ban alcohol advertisement in sports altogether, they'll get the idea from a poster on the side of your local store. If you ban advertisements for alcohol, not only will the entire industry sink but they'll get the idea from the homeless man drinking booze on the corner. See where this is going? The only way to 'protect' teenagers from alcohol would be to ban it entirely, which isn't going to happen.

edit: And even then it will still occur. How many friends or parents of friends do you know who smoked marijuana when they were younger?

You have to give them the ability to decide for themselves as it is futile and destructive to simply ban what you think is bad.

 

I understand what your saying, but taking it out of sports is a significant chunk. And yes, of course, then they just up the advertising everywhere else. But I think the main point is, that children idolize these sports stars promoting alcohol and such.
I think there lies most of their reasoning.

As well, i never said i fully support this, as i myself am a teenage drinker. But not in excess, like so many i know.

EDIT: In Australia, binge drinking is apparently becoming a serious problem. So i guess any cut down is a good cut down.

 

This will not significantly (or, likely, noticeably) reduce alcoholism rates. Those who believe they are mature enough to drink are going to drink as well. If you attempt to take alcohol out of the grasp of these 'blind teenagers who cannot think for themselves', they'll just smoke cigarettes or marijuana instead.

It's an uphill battle with no top trying to reduce alcoholism via banning advertising.

 

It is yes, and i can guarantee that alcohol company's are trying to drum it into our heads that there's nothing wrong with it anyway. But, like i said in the Conscription thread, political partys have alot of power within these. Swaying parents vote's, which i imagine, is alot would greatly help that political party.

Well played Tgump, Well played. i appreciate the input .

 

It's up to the individual user to decide if there's anything wrong with alcohol, or whether or not they should drink it. Same principle applies with all other drugs, substances, etc. Nearly everything you see exists because it generates money. Why is there no 'save the homeless' fund? Because there's no money to be had.

 

I know that, but if there's any swaying in there thoughts, the corporate company's are sure to be the ones that do it. Again, taking away advertising, is just one bit less incentive to drink, but every bit counts.

Yes, its a fairly lost cause, but as i said before, my bet is that there is fairly big political hand in it.

 

Certainly. There's a fairly big political hand in everything.

 

I think this can Probably be closed now, its all argued out. Tgump and i killed it

 

not fair!

 

I'm definately with Tgump on this one. Banning these advertisements wont do much good. As children will always be around it. So eliminating 1 source is going to more affect the loss of money then anything