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Do you want your children to start smoking and drinking? Do you want them to lose their life? Alcohol and tobacco advertising causes peer pressure to young people and influences them to start smoking and drinking. You can’t even let your child watch TV because of all of the alcohol advertising that is going on.
Commercials on TV always are advertising alcohol they talk about how cool it can be but they never say the danger it can bring. What happens if your son is watching his cartoons on TV and all of the sudden a commercial on TV starts saying oh “now you can buy two alcohol products for half price” that’s going to make them want to buy it? ”Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States” (Eric).” This Hispanic population is also younger than the general population: 40% of Hispanics are under 21, versus 30% of the entire population” (Eric). That is a pretty big percentage of kids that are consuming alcohol before their legal age. What happens if you have five children that would be a big possibility that your child might get affected by alcohol advertising?

Alcohol is the drug most frequently used and abused by adolescents in the USA and in the Netherlands. In the USA, 56% of students aged 15 and 16 years reported using alcohol and 34% reported having been drunk in the past year. (Ross) Just think about it 15 and 16 year olds drinking imagine when they are 21 years of age they are most likely to become a big disaster. Which, that becomes to be very bad for you because you don’t want your kid to become an alcoholic.
In controlled experiments, exposure to alcohol imagery in movies and alcohol commercials has led to increased drinking volume. (Bruijin) So that means that because of the...

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"Exposure of Hispanic Youth to Alcohol Advertising." (2003): ERIC. Web. 3 Apr. 2014

Jones, Sandra C., Lyn Phillipson, and Lance Barrie. "‘Most Men Drink... Especially Like When They Play Sports’ – Alcohol Advertising During Sporting Broadcasts And The Potential Impact On Child Audiences." Journal of Public Affairs (14723891) 10.1/2 (2010): 59-73. Business Source Premier. Web. 10 Apr. 2014. Vancouver/ICMJE References

Ross, Craig S., Avalon Bruijn, and David Jernigan. "Do Time Restrictions On Alcohol Advertising Reduce Youth Exposure?" Journal of Public Affairs (14723891) 13.1 (2013): 123-129. Business Source Premier. Web. 7 Apr. 2014
SUE, DUNLEVY. "Kids Are Soaking Up Alcohol Advertising Via The Web." Daily Telegraph, the (Sydney) (2012): 6. Newspaper Source Plus. Web. 10 Apr. 2014. Vancouver/ICMJE References

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