TV Ads for alcohol
 

Just one after the other. It's so unnecessary as so many people buy it anyway, especially this time of year. It's been on my screen all night. I'm just grateful that now the sight of it just makes me gag.

-and all the people in the adds look so Social, Productive, Happy and Healthy !!!

The marketing to young women is out of control...who else is buying Candy Cane Vodka. S'mores vodka. Oh jeeze.

So many new fangled products since my day, but they still go down the same hole and create the same havoc. I rarely see happy healthy people grinning and doing a gentle little jig after a Jaeger Bomb.

You would think the companies would save their money. They have a product that basically sells it self. I sure didn't need any amount of advertising , other then the advertising from friends and family

Totally agree.

What bugs me are the two nit wit anchors drinking wine at 10:00AM. Just sends such a bad message on multiple levels. Commercials dont bother me as much as the store displays in unexpected places. Go to get dog food and there is a huge display of booze in fancy packaging. Hell the grocery store I go to gives out fee samples of wine.

Staying sober is hard enough without all the extra help!

Yes, loads of shops are giving small glasses of wine away and hairdressers this time of year. When you refuse or ask for a cup of tea, they look at you as though you were mad.

Books don't have adverts... heh turn the tv off!... That's been my plan lately :)

Well, look at the Vigra commercials...I mean throwing the ball through the tire - getting it in the hole? How perfect. Vigra is multi billion dollar product annually.

I don't get caught up in the advertising. Honestly, I say open the flood gates and legalize it all with some tort reform in the US.

If I owned a bottling company I would advertise just the same. Maximize shareholder value. Look at all ads, rarely do I see a bra on a fat woman. Instead it's on a 1/100 % of the population and photoshopped to boot.

Most bars I do see happy, jovial people. It's the poor decisions that occur later in the night or hangovers the next day or death on the side of the road that the companies want to hide.

Noing we can do about that, just build a program for ourselves to deal with the white noise around us.

I read with the TV on, plus coming on here. Multitasking :) lol

The first few months I quit,it drove me up the wall. Falstaff (of all things) came out with some new kind of beer. It was on the radio,it was on Bill boards along the highway. It seemed like it was every where. They almost "got me".
Signs along the highway still get me for a split second every now and then. It's a reflex like getting knocked on the knee. It is in my sub conscience mind. And that is what they are trying to do. When someone goes in a beer store and stands there like a kid in a candy store like I used to do. Those advertisements can no doubt sway someones purchase. Whether they are thinking about the advertisement or not.
Thats just the way it is.
Fred

Yeah, commercialization of Alcohol Sucks. Where I live there is morning radio program I listen to in the morning on my drive to work. Every friday they do a "Friday Beer Buzz" segment where they try craft Beers and talk about it. Even just hearing them advertise an hour before how they are excited to have the Beer Buzz coming up bothers me. Celebrating something that gives so many people problems seems irresponsible. I usually avoid the station on Friday now just to avoid annoying myself first thing in the morning.

It's a consumer product and I like capitalism so it doesn't bother me. But what I really don't get is that there is apparently a real need for Farmers Only dating services , good figure

Umm….Today show has Kathy Lee and Hoda drinking wine every morning (the thing most relate to being a "real alcoholic" and doing shots fairly often). Show runs at 9AM I believe. Talk about endorsing morning drinking...

I try to remember that about 90% of people who drink alcohol do not have a drinking problem. Also about 50% of the population are not drinkers at all (these are U.S. stats). I believe that as former problem drinkers we are more sensitive due to what alcohol has done to our lives. When I was drinking I had a hard time grasping that how I drank was abnormal. I still have to remind myself that despite the prevalence of alcohol in our society most people do not drink like I used to drink.

That's what the livestock auctions were for where I grew up in Tennessee.

:) :lol:

(Just kidding Tennesseans! Really!!)

In my country (china), lots of the adverts for alcohol on TV also feature driving cars, I suppose to draw in men's attention as women largely don't drink over here. The most ridiculous advert recently is actually for voice activated GPS, where a guy and his friends are in a car driving, and they say to the GPS 'let's go drinking', gps then shows nearest bar. And they wonder why drink driving is such a huge problem....!

My grocery store just opened a state liquor store in the store. They moved some isles so now as I walk from the isle with spaghetti sauce to the frozen food isle, I pass the isle for liquor. It was its own register and a steel gate.

A year ago I would have been thrilled...lol

I have noticed a lot more ads but it seems to depend on the station I am watching. Some have at least one or two every freaking break. Luckily for me, they are shows I record so I can just fast forward past them. If they are not recorded then I make use of the two/three minute commercial break and do something. Sometimes I put it on pause so I can just fast forward when I get back...lol

Keep the masses drunk and feed them a diet of reality celeb tv shows. Nothing more scary than a sober population questioning the world around them :)

Those are actually promising statistics. I have a feeling it is perhaps more rife in the UK, especially from what I see all the time. I know so many people from the same village who have died from alcohol related diseases. It's not even spread around in any even sense.

The adverts are out of control at xmas time, and to be honest I'm not too sure of the point of them, generally most people who drink have their tipple of choice and seeing an advert is not going to change that!

Do 6 million people in Ireland need reminding every xmas, nearly every hour, that Guinness exists, just incase they had forgotten! :)

The irony is, I can pour the perfect pint of Guinness :)

*sigh I used to frequent a bar that would scoop out the foam so they could pour the Guinness faster. 'Murica!

What really gets me are the Facebook posts - Look! I'm a fun adult with a drink while on vacation, at a party, at a restaurant, while grilling, while doing yoga, in the shower, on my lawnmower, at a funeral, etc.

Yes i love how the ads glorify drinking . . .cut to a few hours later . . .the hard drinkers black-out drunk or vomiting in bathroom. That'd be my commercial . . .but I guess that wouldn't sell . . .lol!

I seem to remember a drink responsibly campaign with a girl covered in puke and a missing tooth a while back, but it hasn't been on lately ... just a glamorous woman with perfect make -up, sitting in front of a roaring fire, drinking Baileys.

Faster?!! . . . a pub would go out of business in Ireland if the pints were coming any quicker than a few minutes at least! . . . whenever I used to be in England it always used to worry me how quickly Guinness used to appear, Irish people expect to wait a good 5mins for a Guinness :)

A good round buyer will get the order in with a quarter pint still left in the glass, by the time the pint is finished, the next one has been sitting for 5/6mins!

It's pretty sad on reflection how drinking was soo organised when I used to drink! :(

By breaking free of alcohol, I not only rid myself of the curse, but also removed myself from being involved in it in any way at all.

I can see it now for what it really is, and it disgusts me how soaked humanity is in the stuff. Even the regular people who are not fully addicted like we are spend a lot of their time with alcohol.

I live in the middle of nowhere, so I don't have TV reception. It spares me a LOT of issues...but I'll share a couple "aha" moments from my life.

When my kiddos were little, I saw how they were being baraged with toy adds more and more as the holidays drew near. So, once Thanksgiving happened, they were only allowed to watch videos, no commercial TV. It did them a favor too, they weren't primed to want a bunch of stuff they couldn't have (rather like us). We were dirt poor, so none of those glamorous gifts were ever going to show up at our house...can't even say under our tree because many years we couldn't afford to have one.

Another night, I couldn't sleep, and got up and turned on the TV. The infomercials were on and I thought, "these are the most vapid, intellect insulting crap...WHO are they advertising to?" um...ME. I was their target audience. Same goes for any commercial. They cost the companies a lot of money to produce and air...they do demographic studies etc. If you see the commercial, you have most likely been deemed the target audience.

So, I asked myself, is this who you want to be? Is this who you see yourself as? And was it healthy for me to continue to put myself in that particular line of fire.

It's ok if the answer is yes. I am not claiming that TV in nothing but junk or anything. My BF and I enjoy several series that we watch on DVD. My ex and I used to use the mute button whenever commercials came on or turn off the box for a couple minutes then back on. but I did find that my personality is a lot happier when I filter what goes into it.

In early recovery I learned a little prayer I say every morning upon waking

"Help me today to not put anything into my MIND or body that you would not have there. Take all my relationships in life and do with them as you will. Let me know the truth"

I think relationship covers my relationships to stuff, food, informtaion etc as well as relationships with people.

Most days I find that what I am putting into my mind is more of an issue than what I am putting into my body.