I’m in recovery and ever commercial is “the bold refreshing taste of uncle berry lemon twist vodka. Having a bad day? Drink this. You know you want to. Drink it Michael! please drink responably
Every ad portrays drinking as a party, and your in a pool throwing a beach ball with your friends, and your ex Chrissy finally admits she was wrong. It’s an unrealistically positive. If you drink Tito’s your father in law will finally grow close to you. It’s not Christmas without even Williams egg nog!
There is no safe amount of alcohol to drink. It is like cigarettes, entirely bad for you.
I’m not saying don’t sell it but why is every add for booze being blasted every. Especially to me because the algorithm knows I’m an alcoholic.
How is that legal?
Please drink responsibly? You’re aiming your ads at alcoholics primarily.
It’s like advertising morphine on skid row. You know what you’re doing.
Edit: for the people saying I’m America centric. I have a Texas education.what the hell is the US? Nothing is beyond our boarders. We are the only land mass. Ill add a picture in the comments.
For the people who happily explained what it’s like in thier country. Makes me feel less crazy for pointing out the problem!
We don’t, alcohol adverts are just as illegal as tobacco. Of course; that might not be the case everywhere on the planet :P
I appreciate you being friendly with it. I just wasn’t thinking about savages.
Z”that’s a joke by the way.
Our education is American centric. “We arrived to this empty land and these hundreds of tribes had a stick up for here butt so we generously held lad on thier behalf in a trust they have no control over. There were treaties.‘don’t look them up but it wasntotallynlegit broh
Theres actually a joke here “we learn geography based on what war we’re in”
If I moved to your country you probably list me as mentally disabled “the usSr can’t hurt you it been gone-
“WE NEED THIRTY NUCLEAR LAND MINES!”
I appreciate you taking it easy on me
You know when you see an advertisement for a casino, and they have a picture of a guy winning money? That’s false advertising, because that happens the least. That’s like if you’re advertising a hamburger, they could show a guy choking. “This is what happened once.”
Mitch Hedberg
I spend a lot of time in Ireland and tbh I can’t remember the last time I saw an ad for regular alcoholic drinks like beers and whiskeys… However a lot of these companies skirt around rules, at least here at the moment, by making ads about non alcoholic versions instead. So you see a lot of Guinness 0.0 and Heineken 0.0 etc.
Tbh even that should banned at this stage too.
What’s worse though is gambling advertising. I fucking hate that shit so much. Its popularity preys on desperate people and further drives the K shaped economy we are seeing nowadays. Its so fucked up.
Gambling ads and sponsorships are crippling the youth. I know lads coming out of school in debt to loads of people to be down the bookies.
The zero ads are a workaround but I wouldnt be so annoyed if they were a different price at the tap!
I would miss the guiness ads but they aren’t even Irish anymore so fuck em.
I have a feeling Australia feels the same about fosters beer now too.
I hear its not really a thing there, Guinness is huge here still. Its overpriced and sales go abroad. The two biggest competitors are bought out by a different oarent company too.
Similarly, why are they allowed to advertise every fancy new and half untested medicine out there?
Like, take such and such drug to eliminate pimples, but possible side effects are hair loss, heart attack, brain bleeding, rectal leakage, miscarriage, loss of fingernails and toenails, blah blah…
Ask your doctor if Nwxalviva is right for you
“Yeah, I know you went through 8 years of med school and internships and have years and years of experience and ongoing education, but I heard part of a 30 second commercial playing in the background so I think I’m pretty well qualified to make this suggestion to you…”
r/USdefaultism
is what I’d say if this were reddit lol
Canada has aboot 40 million people, the UK has about 70 million, Australia has 30 million, and New Zealand (5 million) is basically a rounding error. Since the US has over 300 million people, other English speakers tend to migrate to primarily US platforms.
What I find most interesting about these statistics is the difference in population density between the UK and the USA. Although the US is ~40 times larger, it only contains 7x more people.
I want to add I also get negative comments when I do say “I’m American” to preface something.
It’s really lose/lose but I don’t blame them. America has been pissing a lot of people off lately. Including Americans. Even the trumpets are looking at him like “wtf are you doing”
The various native tribes here have had to band together because we keep deporting NATIVE AMERICANS!
Oh interesting side note when my American friends travel they say they are Canadian because they are embarrassed.
What the hell is the US. I know every county in Texas. Got a cousin and pig in each one. Never heard of none of that “us” business.
I went to the shiny-est college in the planet (which is Texas) and I saw a black man there! He was delivering groceries but almost looked him in the eye. I’m a progressytives!”
Edit: just to be clear I wasn’t naming two animals at my farm. Each farm has a pig who is my cousin. Just wanted to make that very clear. I have cousin pigs
2nd edit: and sometime I lie with them as bride and groom.
It’s legal in Texas as long as a gun is involved
I believe it’s legal in Canada too. I know I’ve seen a disturbing increase in gambling ads here, at least.
The proof that there is only Texas as promised.
(For those that didn’t see the comments about assuming everyone is American. This explains the Texas education system.
Btw no one in Texas calls it “the gulf of America “ we thinks that’s stupid to.
That’s… not at all where the asteroid belt is. This tracks for Texas hahahaha
I was waiting so long for someone to say that. I had a joke prepared for it but I forgot now.
Thank i like when people notice the subtle jokes.
I thought of putting Pluto in there too.
And Texas is bigger than Jupiter lol as it should be lol.
Lobbying. Big Liquor is in everyone’s pocket.
To be fair, as an alcoholic, alcohol ads had zero effect on my purchases.
Before I quit, the only thing that influenced my buying was the calculator app on my phone. For beer it was Millilitres per can times cans per block divided by ABV, divided by price. Higher number good… For scotch and port it was easier.
divided by abv
Well it’s probably a good thing you quit!
Cigarettes cause more deaths: 8 million per year compared to 2.8 million per year. Not disagreeing with you, just pointing out why perhaps there are more lenient rules.
Alcohol is bad, but smoking is worse.
Smoking is both way more addictive and it is a bigger health risk.
It’s rare to be a moderate smoker, generally you either don’t smoke at all, or if you do you are a smoker, with numerous health risks.
With alcohol moderate use is the norm, and only excessive use will make you an alcoholic, resulting in numerous health risks.AFAIK it has only lately become known that even moderate alcohol use is still a health risk. AFAIK mostly causing intestine cancer.
So instead we have campaigns warning against drinking to much, which was also how it started with cigarettes.I do think that on a phone or computer one ought to be able to opt out, like how shops who spam me in email say “do you want to opt out of mother’s day emails?” Because they don’t want to send them if your mom or kid just died, right?
But I don’t know how you would do that without sort of registering as an alcoholic, which seems problematic.
I’m literally subscribed to an industry newsletter and research cocktails for the community here, and haven’t seen very many ads for any sort of alcohol though? Are you really seeing them all the time?
It’s honestly hard to say. Obviously it’s not ever single commercial I see. I feel like an abnormal amount. I see more drinking adds than gambling ads.
But I can’t be positive because I notice every drinking ad because I’m struggling. I probably wouldn’t notice a Nerf commercial in the mix.
I’ve always found it weird that alcohol doesn’t have warning labels. At least not where I live. I guess the risks are common knowledge but we can say the same for cigarettes
But we still sell cigarettes and we could still sell alcohol. Just don’t advertise it on tv and such.
As for addiction I disagree (I smoke) I stoped smoking for 2 years before my divorce. I never could stop drinking.
On top of that you (though it’s very difficult mentally” you could go from a pack a day to zero in one day without negative effects. I’ve done it once before.
Alcohol… I decided I needed to quit drinking a well ago, but I have to wait for a bed at a treatment center before I can quite. Otherwise I’ll die…
I think drinking is pretty dangerous.
“No body smoke occasionally “ paraphrasing of course.
Yes they absolutely do. “I only smoke when I drink “ is a very common thing. Lots of people only smoke when they get stressed.
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That’s a good answer other than the prohibition part. Yes that’s was disaster. I’m talking about advertising the product to … young people a lot of the time.
Plus the framework for the ad ban has already been tried successfully.
