Alcohol advertising ban?
Wednesday 16th September 2009, 3:01PM BST.
HEALTH are considering banning all alcohol advertising, sponsorship and promotions.
Health Minister Anne Pryke has asked her department’s officers to examine a new report published by the British Medical Association, called Under the Influence, which attempts to curb the binge-drinking culture.
The influential UK doctors’ organisation said that the ban, which would include sports advertising, would stop the ‘grooming’ of children as potential drinkers.
Andrew Heaven, Jersey’s head of health improvement, confirmed that Deputy Pryke had asked him to examine the report in detail with a view of adopting something similar in Jersey.
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This is a great idea, I only get leathered cos I see it being advertised. If advertising is removed kids won’t know it exists, I mean it’s not as if you can buy the stuff everywhere and there are pubs on all over the island.
No good policy, it worked when they stopped advertising drugs.
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The Nanny State is tightening it’s grip!
I’ll tell you where this is leading They’ll be wanting to take alcohol off the supermarket shelves next and hide it as they are trying to do with cigarettes. Or restrict the hours of sale. What about freedom of choice? Why should the majority suffer just because the authorities cannot control the careless actions of the few?
These Civil servants in Public Health are Empire Building ultimately to increase their own standing
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y not ban cigerrete ban?!!!!!!!!!!
u and u policies is killing jersey!!!!
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Pointless as this is irrelevant to Jersey. When was the last time you saw an alcohol company sponsor a local sporting event? We only have a couple of small breweries and I don’t recall seeing their banners everywhere. They may sponsor rugby but it’s not like it’s in your face everywhere like other types of advertising. This is just creating pointless work to justify positions.
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Agreed that the abuse of alcohol by a minority does cause problems but at least we all benefit from the millions of pounds that the industry hands over to support sporting and other events. Many will cease as a result of lack of funding as I don’t see the states stepping in to pickup any resulting shortfall or the huge saving made by the health department being transferred to compensate for the lack of sponsors.
I suspect that as usual we will all have to suffer as a result of the interference “for our own good” of a few do-gooders.
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Keith mate – try to let your cynicism make you look too big a moron. Of course advertising influences peoples buying decisions – I thought that was understood even by the most educationally inept – clearly not.
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