Good Public Speaking Speech

The question is how the child of 14 got into that state of drinking regular amounts of alcohol. what made him buy the alcohol, what drove him to begin drinking the alcohol, maybe it was peer pressure, maybe it was watching others enjoy alcohol, but the one thing that we can be sure of is that whilst watching television almost certainly an alcohol ad came up and plays on his mind. The short sharp truth is that teenagers will always have access to alcohol whether that might be through an older child or an unscrupulous off license owner. The ads for alcohol are everywhere, on the TV, on the internet, even the streets are decked with ads for alcohol, whether it is the subtle sign in the local pub window, or the leviathan billboard boasting the latest vodka, schnapps, or lager.

However alcohol brewers (and their loyal teams of overpaid lawyers) claim that their ads do not target anyone to start drinking but to convince them to switch from one brand to another. This of course cannot be true because if it was we would be changing alcohol frequently, especially because £30,000,000 hangs in the financial balance. Personally I think that if we are going to cut down on alcohol ads we are going to have to aim at sports. Let’s think about this, the Heineken cup? Guinness premiership? Carling Cup? And look at the teams themselves, all decked out like walking billboards plastered with ads for all alcohol known to man. Children idolise footballers and what example is it to them to see their hero walking around with CARLSBERG printed across his chest. As children they become used to the idea of drink being linked with sporting success

France has already banned alcohol advertising in all sports, and this from a country of wine lovers. And not only on the pitch, and but many French alcohol brewers have withdrawn from making ads at all, many would love to see the end of Alcohol related ads on the TV in England too, a medical student said “We need to send out a clear message alcohol harms and we want to see an end to the glorification of it on our television screens” TV advertising is also coming under heavy fire from the commission in Brussels, they have found evidence that music videos and sponsorships that prominently show alcohol being used upped by 2 percent for every show that has alcohol in it. Now obviously 2 % doesn’t sound much, but imagine how much TV shows a teenager watches and that’s not even counting the internet or street ads

Personally I believe that a phased ban should be put into action starting with a watershed for alcohol ads before nine O’ clock and with a request that all shows should tone down alcohol use, after these are implemented we could go on to other plans such as a ban on all alcohol ads like their was a ban on smoking ads. And Alcohol warnings similar to those on cigarette packets, finally moving on to a full ban on alcohol usage in movies and shows completely.

Before I leave you though contemplate this fact, if you filled the entire of the Buckingham palace gardens with drunks and their families only a quarter of them would recover.