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...impact? Media folks and moralists are all abuzz this week after NBC's decision to reintroduce liquor ads during last Saturday's airing of "Saturday Night Live." Citing a deteriorating advertising market, Peacock Network execs are reversing a 50-year-old voluntary ban on television commercials hawking hard alcohol. NBC's choice, the moral authorities among us believe, is a terrible and inevitable symptom of our decaying societal fabric. "The decision by NBC to accept advertising for liquor is shockingly irresponsible and should be reversed immediately," says Dr. J. Edward Hill, chair-elect of the American Medical Association...
...sure I follow Dr. Hill's logic. How are ads for alcohol any more dangerous than ads for other products that, taken to excess, can cause health problems, like wine, beer or fatty foods? This is an interesting moment for public advocates to get their knickers in a twist, considering all the products that are currently advertised freely, without any semblance of guidelines, all over television...
...Hard alcohol - just like beer and wine - is best consumed in a responsible manner by responsible people. If people, including kids, drink too much, it's not going to be because they saw the odd scotch spot on prime time. It will be for exactly the same reason people drink too much beer and wine: Because alcohol makes people feel better, or lets them relax, or dulls their pain, at least in the short term. Yes, it's dangerous, and yes, abusing it can lead to alcoholism. But, lest we forget, this is a free country, and the law permits...
According to numbers recently released by UHS, more students have come to UHS for alcohol-related incidents. But Rosenthal said, this may not be bad sign...
...level of drug and alcohol abuse may be the same,” he said. “There’s no longer the concern that [UHS] will be calling the Ad Board...