positives of stopping...

I remember when I was a kid and visiting Oz in 1981 for the first time since leaving a few years before (and not been back since) there was a ad on the buses which showed an ashtray full of butts and ash with the words "Kiss a non-smoker. Taste the difference."

The positive message has stayed with me and I have never felt the resentment that the article says we feel from being lectured to. Just think about the "You wouldn't steal a car..." DVD piracy crap. What effect has that had on many of us ?

LOL F A I L

I think this has to go to the top of the FAIL charts... lol

That said, anyone who has seen an proper alcoholic will know that alcohol is actually the most dangerous narcotic on the planet - far more dangerous than any Class A even. Of course governments and the booze industry don't want you to realize that, as they're snouts are far too deeply entrenched in the trough... or should I say glass.

And oddly enough...

Encouraging abstinence only results in higher teen pregnancy rates! Whod'a thunk it?

Paris, because she knows all about teen drinking.

I'm not surprised.

The caption on that ad says that "Binge drinking can lead to unplanned, unprotected sex".

Er, that's supposed to be a downside????

TFIF I say.

Wow

I can never get it up when I go binge drinking...........so........... kudos.

A sitcom?

Honestly, as one of the 'youf' a sitcom would be received by my friends and I with a large measure of vermouth and a measure of vodka and gin... Um I MEANT to say cynicism followed by a fair amount of eye-rolling.

Whenever something with a significant, and important message, it should never be tried to be put across in a light hearted way, or in a way in which those who are sending the message are trying to be 'down with the kids, yo'.

My advice with the budget? Take them to a morgue and show them someone who died, at 30, of liver failure. That'll make them sit up.

Or they could just go to the pub.

Weird

Oddly enough, after reading that article, I feel the need for a bowl of corn flakes.

Can't understand why.

Oh, and a pint.

@duh

You entirely missed the point of the new nasty pictorial warnings on cigarette packets. This was the government's plan to kick-start a failing economy by reviving a previously moribund sector. Nobody wants to look at those pictures so they start buying cigarette cases and discarding the packets. This has the effect of perking up sales on the high street of both cigarettes and cigarette cases. It also has the serendipitous side-effect of creating the correct 1930s aesthetic to usher in the new golden age of totalitarianism.

I'll drink to that!!!

Nothing further to say your honour.

Is it me or...

Did that poster not catch Harry Enfield looking his best?

sorry , what was that?

i missed thearticle, due to being in the pub.

Another statement from the Department of the Bleedin' Obvious

Most people don't like emotionally manipulative adverts and "guilt trip" messages and thus such things fail to achieve their aims.

Who would have believed it...

Unplanned sex you say?

I'll drink to that.

The one where we steal a sitcom plot,...

IIRC, one of the plots in Friends involved Rachel not remembering who got her pregnant and no clues except for his "sweater" being left behind. I think this "sitcom as a warning" about alcohol idea has already been done - get drunk and you could end up shagging someone as vapid as Jennifer Aniston.

PS. It was Ross.

How about mind your own f##cking business

and stop telling me how to live my frigging life, government and health 'charities', FFS

Choice?

I choose to get wasted and have sex please. Oh God please. Wont somebody think of my chances of practicing to make children.

UK adverts

Have you seen the latest "drinking causes damage you can't see" campaign by the nanny state? The horrific bus shelter and TV ads that make out like 2 pints is going to give you cancer, or a sudden heart attack/stroke?

I sure as hell need a pint to calm down after seeing those fucking things.

Unfortunate tagline.

"Binge drinking can lead to .... sex"

Talking of fags...

work mate of mine visited one of the few places in this country where cigarrettes are produced.

This "factory" pays £3,000,000 A DAY in tax. Yes, thats right 3 milion quid a day.

The workers are happy, no one ever leaves, they have proper smoking areas with settees, coffee on tap etc etc.Spotless building, proper health care etc etc.

And the government wants to make smoking a no-no. They might say it to appease the ney-sayers but its in their own interest to keep fags and boozer on sale.

Twunts, the lot of em. If people want to drink, then charge em when they end up in hospital for some stupid booze induced injury. And make it a lot. Coppers, nick em, bang em up for the night and charge em for the honour and taking up a cell cos they cant hold their ale.

Or do a Kenny...Round em up, put 'em in a field....You know the rest.

damn right!

the second I saw one of those latest range of 'alcohol reduction' posters....with a picture

of a nice chilled, crisp lager with the glass covered in condensate.... my. what a thirst i got. had to down a pint as soon as I could! ;-)

The real effect of that ad....

...ish to show the hideoush grammatical mishtakesh you make when you shloshed, like usheing "who" inshtead of "whom". Fucking Shashatchewan bashtardsh!