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ALCOHOL companies are using Twitter to plug their products to a young and potentially underage audience, prompting calls for greater regulation of social media. via Action call as social media marketing of alcohol reeling in young audience | Herald Sun.
ALCOHOL and processed food companies are employing the same tactics as Big Tobacco to increase their profits at the expense of people's lives, health experts say. The tactics used include industry-funded biased research, political donations, ghost-writing of public policy and campaigns blaming individuals for their choices, an article in The Lancet said on Tuesday. Trusting [...]
ALCOHOL PROMOTION TARGETING YOUNG PEOPLE — IS IT TIME TO SUE THE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY? Transcript Thank you for the invitation to speak here today. I want to present a non-lawyer’s perspective – so this will not be an analysis of legal issues, but a discussion of some broad considerations. These are momentous times for public [...]
Major alcohol companies are consciously directing their advertising campaigns at young people. Coming up with campaign/product names like Pom Pom, Electric Pink, Hot Pink, and Skinnygirl Cocktails; they are designed to attract young people. Is it time to tell these companies to back off and leave children alone? The recently formed Alcohol Advertising Review Board [...]
