Tim Dower: Alcohol advertisements aren't the end of the world

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 19, 2023 · 2m

Fresh concerns today about alcohol advertising near schools.

Today's Medical Journal reports on a survey around more than 50 Auckland schools, which found each of them had at least one alcohol ad within 500 metres.

And it's pointing out there was alcohol advertising close to 63% of low-decile schools.

Instinctively, that doesn't sound so good but can we just back up the bus here for a second?

One alcohol ad within 500 metres of a school... does that strike you as an end of the world is nigh situation?

No, me neither.

If it's the only ad for anything in that 500 metre radius and it's as big as…