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    summers here, bbq on the go, why not get in some ice cold beers and enjoy even more....?10 for 25."

    "take home a M&S meal for two, and enjoy this new 2007 award winning wine, its not just any wine, its M&S.

    Just two of the advertisements I have seen today, and all this before 10am in the morning.

    Now, since I have been AF for 5 days now I have only just noticed what these companies are trying to ram down our throats, (literally). All aimed at brainwashing us into having a drink, and claiming that it is good for us and we will have a better time when we do(far bloody from it), but its not really me I am worried about, its the younger and future generations. Not only is the media trying to make young folk feel like they are inadequate because they are not a size 9 or don?t have perfect skin, or not wearing the next best fashion accessory, but they are also trying to gain the next generations of alcoholics.

    They push it so much on everyone, as if it?s not normal to not drink. Now I know that they stopped advertising cigarette?s quite a while back, but is there anything we can do to get alcohol banned from advertising? I know there is no way that the government will ban alcohol completely(lines their fat pockets to much) but maybe if we got the adverts banned we could help save a few....or just one! any ideas? rant over!
    ?I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.?

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    Geekteeth, I agree with you. Society has been brainwashing us for decades and decades. Making it seem like it's so cool to drink that you will be an outcast and not be able to enjoy yourself if you don't drink. it's so sneaky and prevalent that we have to come up with excuses not to drink when we go out.

    Cigarette smoking has changed in the last couple of decades. We don't have to make excuses for not smoking. Smoking is shunned for the most part. The attitude has totally shifted. The only ads that you do see for tobacco are the once that warn us not to. Why hasn't the same shift occurred with alcohol? I really wish it would, but I don't think it will ever happen.

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      Geekteeth, I agree with you. Society has been brainwashing us for decades and decades. Making it seem like it's so cool to drink that you will be an outcast and not be able to enjoy yourself if you don't drink. it's so sneaky and prevalent that we have to come up with excuses not to drink when we go out.

      Cigarette smoking has changed in the last couple of decades. We don't have to make excuses for not smoking. Smoking is shunned for the most part. The attitude has totally shifted. The only ads that you do see for tobacco are the once that warn us not to. Why hasn't the same shift occurred with alcohol? Its a deadly attitude I really wish the same shifts would occur, but I don't think it will ever happen. Does anyone out there see any signs at all of a change?

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