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K. -Jacobsen
A.
Summary
“Would
an alcohol advertising ban work?” By Channel 4 News. Channel 4 made
a television broadcast, about the young people´s drinking
culture. In the broadcast, there is said that, all marketing, and
sponsorship of alcohol should be banned, for sports and music events,
included price promotions like happy hours. Doctors warn that these
commercials, where they show people having a great time, dancing and
drinking alcohol, are giving young people the wrong idea about
alcohol, and that the youth doesn’t understand the dangers of
drinking alcohol.
The
British Medical Association made a report, saying that the medical,
psychological and social harm caused by drinking, needed to get
tackled right.
The
BMA says that products like toffee vodka, or other alcoholic drink,
that tastes like candy, is specially designed to appeal to young
people and makes alcohol seem like essential part of everyday life.
B.
Discussion
Today, alcohol
consumption is getting a really big issue, especially for young
people. The youth´s drinking culture is getting more and more
dangerous, for their own health. “But what does alcohol do to our
body?” Alcohol is messing with a lot of our inner organs. Ex the
brain, heart and liver, and enlarge the chances of getting cancer and
lower immune system. Alcohol interferes with the brain´s
communication pathways. When alcohol interferes, it can cause mood
swings and chance in behavior. Alcohol is making it harder to think
clearly and has also an effect on move coordination. “What about
the rest of the body?” Well beside the brain, alcohol can cause
high blood pressure and irregular heartbeat. Cancer is also on the
list of problems caused by alcohol, and lower immune system. “But
why are we drinking more and more today, when we know this?” We
know that it isn’t good for our health, but we won´t stop drinking
it.
Underage
drinking is and will always be a big problem. Young people who drink
are more likely to be involved in violent behaviors or have
unprotected sex with multiple partners. Develop alcohol problems in
later life, or less brain function.
“What
happens when we drink?” The eye's ability to quickly focus and
adjust from light to dark deteriorate, and the incoordination and
increased reaction time. Lack of control over the body, so walking
straight is hard. “What about the day after?” Hangover is not fun
at all, but we still drink the next time. The noise from the neighbor
wakes you up, and it feels like someone is hitting your head with a
hammer. The head is pounding and you have a dry mouth.
I think
that people drink, so they can escape from the world for a while. And
getting lose, and forget everything. We drink to get relaxed and stop
thinking about our life. When we drink, we can relax, because the
brain stop working right and we can only handle what is going on in
the moment. Alcohol isn´t necessarily a bad thing, only when we get
addicted or the body is getting affected.
”Pushed
into drinking or what?” Some people are being pushed into drinking,
and others choose for them self. These days there are a lot of teen
group pressure, about a lot of things, and one of them is alcohol.
The more you can drink, the “cooler” you are. Ex “How many
shots can you take?” Kids
are experimenting with alcohol at earlier ages than ever before,
because they can.
“Whose
fault is it?” ”Parents or companies?” Well the parents should
have had a better influence on their kids, and talked with them about
drinking. But if the kids friends are drinking then there isn´t a
long way to them self, drinking, maybe caused by group pressure. I
don’t think that you can blame the companies. Yes the companies are
selling the alcohol and marketing them, but where do they say that
young teens should go and buy the alcohol and get drunk…nowhere.
Because it´s not just young people, but also adults, that drinks.
“Where
are the alcohol companies in all this?” well the companies is of
cause marking there alcohol product. Sponsorship of alcohol shouldn’t
get banned, for sports and music events, because it’s not their
fault. “What if drinking got banned?” even if sponsorship of
alcohol and drinking got banned, people will find other ways. Even
the price doesn’t really matter in some way. It is a plus, for the
buyers, when the alcohol is cheap, but even when it is expensive, we
are paying.
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Monkeys
and humans brains develop in the same way, so scientist has
been researching into drinking and brain developing in monkeys.
“How do their do that?” Chitra Mandyam and co, of the
Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, gave four
monkeys alcohol for 11 months. The monkeys where rhesus
macaque, and over a period of 11 months, the rhesus macaque
where giving alcoholic drinks with citrus-flavor. The rhesus
macaque monkeys where two months later killed, so their brains
could be compared with monkeys that didn’t consume alcohol.
“What
was the result?” The monkeys that got alcohol for 11 months
had 50 to 90 per cent fewer stem cells in their hippocampus.
This is a great proof of what alcohol can do, and it´s
important that we continue the research and learn more about
how we should protect the body, specially the brain and liver.
My
conclusion is that underage drinking is not a very good thing,
but there isn´t so much that we can do about it. As long as
there is alcohol, young people will be drinking it. But young
people should get the information about what kind of risks
there is. Many will properly not listen, but then we have
tried.
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