Advertising On Buses
Sir. —I simply cannot understand an attitude of mind which attaches such importance to advertising that it sees a sinister influence in drink advertisements on buses People either like the stuff or they don't, and a drunken driver arraigned before the Magistrate would look pretty silly if he pleaded that his condition was indirectly due to the subtle incitement of trade propaganda. “Please, sir. I saw it on the pictures." used to be the classic excuse for misdemeanours put forth by astute infants in the children's courts when they were run in for some indictable form of mischief. Are we to suppose that the alcoholics of the future will sadly attribute their downfall to the perusal of advertisements on buses or anywhere else? —Yours, etc., I.S.T. February 10. 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29436, 11 February 1961, Page 3
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