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Nowadays, alcoholic beverages such as alcohol are common throughtout the world by large
quantities of consumption. So, parallel to it is the increase in the number of alcoholic drinks that
spread on TV. Meanwhile, there are many streams of opinion from many people who advertise
alcoholic beverages on television especially for children and adolescents.
Alcohol adverts must not be seen to have a certain effect on teenagers like to boost confidence,
make individuals more atractive or suggest sex appeal. Adverts shouldn’t imply that alcohol can
improve boredom or loneliness or have the effect of changing a person’s mood or behaviour. Not
only that, many advertisements use rock music, animation or appealing images which increase
their popularity among younger viewers and alcohol adverts are shown to be the most
remembered and a favourite with teenagers.
As for me, I have never seen any TV advertisments which schown people drinking and having a
really bad time. Moreover, all the images are of people socializing, laughing, enjoying
themselves. You never see an ad for heavy drinkers at home drowing their sorrows or having a
fight outside a pub or beating up their family as they have been driking.
So even though the ad must not sugggest that alcohol provides happiness, joviality, fun and
improved social interation – they obviously do. Besides, the teenagers imitate alcohol ads in their
negative ways of being difficult to avoid. Parents, family should observe, care, talk to them more
so that they can easily help them overcome the temptation of society.
We may not advertise alcohol on TV but we can use billboards, through supermarkets, retailers,
marketing staff, direct advertising,... Since then, we can connect products with customers without
worrying about sensitive issues.