Liquor advertising
Sir,—Mr Downey states he does not write as spokesman for the liquor industry. Nevertheless he chooses to defend the ethics of the advertising industry and, by implication, liquor advertising. But let us be quite clear: advertising ethics are entertained only as long as profits are assured. The advertising of liquor, brands and liquor outlets is one of the nastier faces of what is eupheriiistically called “free enterprise.” Where and what are the ethics of industries that grow fat on the misery and social degradation spread by a drug? The same old formula, in different words, is trotted out again: what is good for business is good for the (expendable) consumer. The liquor advertisers compete for the greatest profits and the greatest number poisoned, maimed, debilitated and killed. — Yours, etc., K. FEA. July 16, 1983.
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