Alcohol Ads

[ALone1]

This is just venting, but since I don't drink, it seems like a good place to do it.  Has anyone noticed an increase in alcohol ads on tv and the glorifying of drinking?  Especially with the increase of DWI checks and the danger of drinking, those ads seem to be counter-productive in curtailing it.  And for those on us on this forum, it doesn't help us either to encourage drinking as an escape.

 

While this subject may seem more liberal, I would prefer to see the money used on the ads for the promotion of medical illegal drug - another controversial subject.  For me at least, I was more able to relax and less depressed while using it.  But since it's been years, I wouldn't know where to get it or how it's changed.

 

I guess I would just like to get other's opinions to see if I'm imagining more alcohol ads and also views on using illegal drug for treatment of depression. 

[Stuarachel]

Over here in the UK, we not only have alcohol ads but ads for betting are far more frequent. Even ads advertising apps for betting on your phone. Although companies are within their rights to advertise, i find it quite alarming at the amount of ads for betting and drinking that are being shown. It's like the amount of TV shows that glorify sex and being "easy" if you're a female or a "player" if you're male. It's the culture and society, for the most part it's become degenerate and vulgar.

[TopekaK]

This is just venting, but since I don't drink, it seems like a good place to do it.  Has anyone noticed an increase in alcohol ads on tv and the glorifying of drinking?  Especially with the increase of DWI checks and the danger of drinking, those ads seem to be counter-productive in curtailing it.  And for those on us on this forum, it doesn't help us either to encourage drinking as an escape.

 

While this subject may seem more liberal, I would prefer to see the money used on the ads for the promotion of medical illegal drug - another controversial subject.  For me at least, I was more able to relax and less depressed while using it.  But since it's been years, I wouldn't know where to get it or how it's changed.

 

I guess I would just like to get other's opinions to see if I'm imagining more alcohol ads and also views on using illegal drug for treatment of depression. 

 

I think there are just more ways to put the ads out there, so I guess we are seeing more of them.  I don't watch too much tv so I don't know.  But I feel it's nowhere near the way it was in the 60s and 70s.