Comments on: Alcohol, Tobacco Products Aimed At Teens?

Among Concerns: Caffeinated, Fruity Drinks That Contain Alcohol, Flavored Tobacco

[quiet42]

Why do critics always say items with colorful packaging is for kids? Perhaps they live in a black and gray world but we, as humans, have color vision and might enjoy some color in our products. Just because there is not bright colors in their imagination does not mean they should impose their bleak view upon others.

[quiet42]

Why do critics always say items with coloful packaging is for kids? Perhaps they live in a black and gray world but we, as humans, have color vision and might enjoy some color in our products. Just because there is not bright colors in their imagination does not mean they should impose their bleak view upon others.

[grammawhamma]

Wow Michelle, are you having a bad day or what? I don''t see how RowdyTexans post offended you so much...all he/she was trying to point out is that this has become a nanny state...something you say on these boards often. Chill out.

[grammawhamma]

RowdyTexan2: I liked your post. I don''t see illegal drugs advertised on TV or in magazines...yet many, many teens get them and abuse them. The law is 18 for tobacco and 21 for alcohol...enforce the law (but that''s not happening).

In my opinion...get rid of all the "ask your doctor if this is right for you" commercials. They are targeting hypocondriacs. Also get rid of all the mud slinging political commercials because they are also trying to influence those that are easily brainwashed!!

[siouxe-2009]

I am not a big fan of the marketing blitz used to promote these seriously addictive products, but i feel that blaming the companies soley because of their packaging is a little off mark.
I personally have never seen any advertisiment for "Tilt", "Sparks" or any other such drink and have noticed that they are stocked in the alcohol dept.
I ask..Why are teens in these aisles? why aren''t these areas roped off, in some way?.. why aren''t we questioning the influence by the parents?
they are ultimately responsible as our "teachers" and "role models!!!"

[michellem99-2009]

RawtyTexan 2. yer not very bright. Look at that texasre yer put in the white house. I call TX texasre. Lived there and got out.
My list.
GEY THE CARS OFF THE ROADS-USE MASS TRANSPORTION.
Let price the healty food that is good for ye so that the poor can afford to eat properly.
Let not bar the tv but put good programming on there.
Let me tell ye lass/lad it is harder for me to extercise. I am multi handicapped.
I live with a person with diabetes,heart probleme,COPD. I am legally blind with C/P.
Yer post is a slap in the face.

[denn034]

This smoker thinks that''s deplorable.

[rowdytexan2]

For what it''s worth, why don''t they legislate out hamburger stands and taco stands, and any restaurant that puts more than 1/2 cup of food on your plate that has fat in it? That would save a huge bundle on obesity and heart disease and diabetes!

Let''s just rule out liquor and beer, and any drink with sugar in it!

Let''s just rule out cars and keep all the crazy driver''s off the streets!

Let''s just rule out nuclear weapons! And nuclear waste that''s leaching out in our water systems?

Let''s just rule out tv so people will get off their behinds and start exercising!

Let''s just rule out tap water, and start buying all our water distilled by the gallon!

Let''s just rule out all the pharmaceuticals we pour down our mouths that attack our liver!

(snort!)

[michellem99-2009]

In the state of WA they can''t sell the items this story talks about to minors. They card. I am 53. I have been carded at my age. They have the year they can buy it. I do feel the beer,booze,wine ads should me pull from the TV. I remeber the cigerettes ads on TV yeaes ago. They were pulled in 70. If they did the same thing with drink then that is a start in the right way and the money saved. They do use young looking persons..They should use the spots to educate not push it. It is in ye face.

[pinkneygreen]

Alcohol Facts You%u2019ll Never Hear from McCain and Big Booze
%u2022 The alcoholic-beverage industry relies on heavy and addicted drinking for the largest share of its profits. Hazardous drinking (5 or more drinks at one sitting)accounts for more than half of the alcohol industry%u2019s $155 billion market, and more than 75% of the beer industry%u2019s market.
%u2022 Underage alcohol use is more likely to kill young people than all illegal drugs combined. More than 1,700 college students in the U.S. are killed each year%u2014 about 4.65 a day%u2014as a result of alcohol-related injuries.
%u2022 Underage drinking spawns the future heavy and addicted drinking on which the industry depends for most of its sales. People who begin drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to develop alcohol dependence at some time in their lives compared with those who have their first drink at age 20 or older.4
%u2022 Nearly 14 million Americans %u2013 one in every 13 adults -- abuse alcohol or are alcoholic. Fewer than 25% of those who need treatment get it in a given year.
%u2022 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) are the leading preventable cause of birth defects in the U.S., affecting as many as 40,000 babies per year and costing upwards of $5.4 billion per year.




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