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Alcoholic beverage companies are using social media outlets to recruit young drinkers, in some cases using cartoon characters and stuffed toys to promote their products, researchers say.
They said a lack of stringent monitoring and regulation of social media has led to a surge of alcohol advertising on this medium.
Studies showed alcohol-related activities had been promoted via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube by major alcohol brands.
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Discussion 1 : 17/02/2012 at 01:37 PM1
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The media is at fault for many things not just alcohol. Try speeding,buying products such as whietening creams which are unsafe. Needless cosmetic changes to young people such as botox injections, surgical operations and the list goes on. Treating teenage girls,young ladies,woman as sex objects. The so called superstars are also very much to be blamed. The CP adverts show just a few selcted young people in the adverts buying goods. An advert should be real and as authentic as possible to sell a product. How many adverts do you see on Tv with the same people in tem al the time? pretending to eat or drink a product, use a cream etc and also do not forget the adverts which use foreign people in them. Some are not even aware of the advert they are in. this is such a big topic
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