Gambling Adverts

I started watching telly in 1960...as a child from 4 onwards.... i was viewing all that decades ads ...i was subjected to ads for beer..spirits..cigars..cigarettes...rammed in my head until i was an adult..i watched "all our yesterdays" which was about 25 years ago today...which was all about the 2nd world war for 6 years that was aired...i've never killed anyone or wanted to bomb them...i saw numerous hours footage of vietnam war on the news..i've never napalmed anyone or wanted to. I watched hundreds of hours of war films and western series..never shot anyone. Watched the Kennedy footage god knows how many times..never shot a president..although that want might change if shredded wheat head gets the job:)

I never smoked at school..i've never had an alcohol problem...for one simple reason..ads do not bring on addictions...if they did i would have been dead by 1980 with the wall to wall hammering i had from ads

when i hear stuff today about what will hurt our children..i laugh a bit to be honest..its not the ads that want addressing..its the addictions. Two totally different things..ads don't create addictions..personalties do..if you that way inclined you will go that way..telly or no telly
 
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This is the advantage us old crinklies have Marb over todays guardians..all these " bad" things that telly is supposed to do to you..was spoonfed to our generation every day of our childhood...and it made no difference whatsoever..folk still smoked same as they had before TV ads..still drank same as they had before ads...still had same addictions or not ..as they had before adverts.

In fact..i never saw an advert for LSD..how on earth did that take off without ads?

I think we have got to a point now where we are encouraged really to put our kids into hibernation until they are 16..just in case telly shows them smoking..drinking..and turns them all into alkies and lung cancer victims before age of 30

the fact is..in the 60's...if i had had the internet to access..i wouldn't have watched telly at all..and i'm sure most young folk today read internet rather than watch the tv.

so lets say that is the case..then if these bad things do change ordinary folk into addicts of whatever kind..i wouldn't be worriyng about ads on TV..i really think what can be accessed on the internet might be more of a concern
 
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Think of the children, what a croc of shite. What percentage of them under the age of 16 do these chinless wonders actually think watch daytime tv?
 
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