State Health officials in Connecticut put up a billboard of a baby drinking beer to curb underage drinking.
Do you think the billboard goes too far?
9 Comments
Lori Lynch said:
I don't see anything wrong with a billboard that gets people's attention. The billboard won't stop teens from drinking, but it might get more parents started talking with thier kids!
Erin Burgess said:
I don't think there is anything wrong with this. Sure if you don't really look at the billboard, it's alarming. However it has a good message. We as adults need to talk to our children/teenagers to make them aware that underage drinking is not alright.
Rachel Zielinski said:
What sort of logic is this? That a beer will effect a nearly grown adult as badly as it would effect a 10 pound infant child. This is absurd. It is also contributing to the vilification of alcohol which serves only to entice teenagers into trying it. The solution should never be "just don't do it"-- you have to educate your children on not only the consequences of poor choices, but the rewards in their alternatives.
Don Brubaker said:
Put those drunken babies in jail for life, better yet give them the needle and be done with them once and for all.
Heck lets just shoot everyone in the head that even looks at a beer. That will teach them.
Yeah thats what we can do, why waste good beer to kill people, we can kill them without it.
alex gretz said:
Every kid knows you can go in Kent WA Fred Meyer at night and walk out with cases of beer. No security and no receipt checkers on exits make it easy for teenagers to get alcohol.
Amy Kimball said:
No. This ad does not go too far. The truth about uderage drinking is shocking and too many people turn a blind eye. Seeing this billboard is an eye opener and more such awareness needs to be out there.
If Awareness ads are "downplayed" and made to be "sensitive" to the public then the message doesn't get across.
erv said:
so....does this kid have health care?
Darold said:
Tell me again why there's no picture of the billboard here...this is a web site. I don't much care one way or the other but defending something dumb and ineffective with the old "if it saves one life."
Wake up! Kids drink for to self medicate for untreated issues or problems in their lives, to try to act like adults and for lots of reasons that this billboard will never address. That's why Dare hasn't actually helped anything or changed anything.
Its time to stop acting like our legal drugs aren't drugs and treat them accordingly and deal with them on that level-not by making them illegal, but by addressing it in that context. Billboards don't do anything either way.
I don't see anything wrong with a billboard that gets people's attention. The billboard won't stop teens from drinking, but it might get more parents started talking with thier kids!
I don't think there is anything wrong with this. Sure if you don't really look at the billboard, it's alarming. However it has a good message. We as adults need to talk to our children/teenagers to make them aware that underage drinking is not alright.
What sort of logic is this? That a beer will effect a nearly grown adult as badly as it would effect a 10 pound infant child. This is absurd. It is also contributing to the vilification of alcohol which serves only to entice teenagers into trying it. The solution should never be "just don't do it"-- you have to educate your children on not only the consequences of poor choices, but the rewards in their alternatives.
Put those drunken babies in jail for life, better yet give them the needle and be done with them once and for all.
Heck lets just shoot everyone in the head that even looks at a beer. That will teach them.
Yeah thats what we can do, why waste good beer to kill people, we can kill them without it.
Every kid knows you can go in Kent WA Fred Meyer at night and walk out with cases of beer. No security and no receipt checkers on exits make it easy for teenagers to get alcohol.
No. This ad does not go too far. The truth about uderage drinking is shocking and too many people turn a blind eye. Seeing this billboard is an eye opener and more such awareness needs to be out there.
If Awareness ads are "downplayed" and made to be "sensitive" to the public then the message doesn't get across.
so....does this kid have health care?
Tell me again why there's no picture of the billboard here...this is a web site. I don't much care one way or the other but defending something dumb and ineffective with the old "if it saves one life."
Wake up! Kids drink for to self medicate for untreated issues or problems in their lives, to try to act like adults and for lots of reasons that this billboard will never address. That's why Dare hasn't actually helped anything or changed anything.
Its time to stop acting like our legal drugs aren't drugs and treat them accordingly and deal with them on that level-not by making them illegal, but by addressing it in that context. Billboards don't do anything either way.
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