Comment by sdeframond
2 months ago
> In my country, advertising alcohol is forbidden. Somehow I still manage to find interesting new beers to try year after year
This is interesting. Alcohol companies a well known to bypass this prohibition by all possible means (product placement, influencers,...) and yet I find real benefits in it. It would possibly be similar if advertising was forbidden for everything
They probably do some sort of promotion targeted to the retailers. I don't know and don't really even care. All I know is that I don't see any beer ads on TV, outside, or anywhere else really, and I wouldn't mind if the same was true for everything.
Yep. Same goes for drugs in France. Advertising to the general pumicbis forbidden but you still find ads in press targeted to GPs.
Still, I believe we are better off like this than if those ads were allowed everywhere.