24.7.12

Alcohol sponsorship and sport


(Extracts of his interview)
"I think the Health Select Committee report has been a very useful addition to the government's Alcohol Strategy… some very useful comments on advertising and I think emphasising強調 that advertising does change behaviour, it does influence影響 children, and it's therefore really important that the government goes further更進一步 on advertising than they've done in the past. The Health Select Committee, for example, suggested that we look harder at what they do in France where there's a complete ban on broadcast advertising of alcohol products, there's a complete ban on sport sponsorship. So that would be a really helpful way forward for this country because advertising does make a difference for children. For example, Heineken is the official beer of the 2012 Olympics now what message does that send to children about the link between alcohol and sporting prowess威力?"

BBC Interviewer:
The committee also says there needs to be greater emphasis on the health impact of drinking alcohol not just anti-social behaviour. Why has this emphasis always been on anti-social behaviour and not on the health impact?

"I think everyone always finds it easier to talk about other people - those young people who are making trouble in our cities on Saturday night - rather than necessarily looking at their own consumption消費. We know that many people drink well above recommended safe limits; they don't make trouble in cities on Saturday night, they're doing so at home. It's this hidden drinking on a regular basis that leads to many of the chronic conditions we see in our hospitals every day of the year – cirrhosis肝硬化 of the liver, strokes, cancers that are strongly alcohol related and so on – so I think it's been a very useful change in emphasis重點."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2012/07/120723_witn_alcohol_sponsorship.shtml

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