Leslie Snyder builds an argument to persuade the audience that exposure to alcohol advertising increases alcohol consumption in youth by using evidence, such as facts or examples, to support her claims. Snyder proves that alcohol related advertising was due to the increase in drinking. Money spent on alcohol related advertising was also due to an increase in drinking. Snyder also explains when an under age drinker is exposed to high levels of alcohol advertisements the results are increased rather than decreased. Snyder uses these few examples to support her claim that the money spent on alcohol advertising and the exposure to alcohol advertising affects alcohol consumption by youth.
Leslie Snyder states that alcohol advertising was related to an increase in drinking. Snyder creates a table to support her claim showing “individuals who saw 1 more advertisement average than other individuals had 1% more alcoholic drinks per month” (Leslie Snyder). This fact supports Snyder’s claim by concluding that alcohol advertisements can increase drinking. Snyder includes the alcohol industry to have codes placed on the advertisements. These codes require “that at least 70% of the audience (50% before fall 2003) for print, radio, and television advertisements
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With market advertising “for every dollar per capita spent on advertising in the market, individuals consumed 3% more alcoholic beverages per month” (Leslie Snyder). Places that showed high levels of alcohol advertising, saw an increase in drinking in older youth. Places that saw small levels of alcohol advertising, saw a decrease in drinking. Age groups varied with drinking such as “younger age groups show an increase in drinking over time but at a slower rate than peers in markets with high levels of advertising expenditures per capita” (Leslie Snyder). The ages vary with the amount of alcohol advertising exposed to
Quotation: “It was the modern word’s signature to etch economic dominance and political supremacy into a radical cultural design. It was also its signature to hide the social relations that were brewing supremacy and conflict behind a semblance of “race things.” (Silverblatt, 3) Argument: Here, Irene Silverblatt is arguing that, like all colonial powers, the Inquisition of Peru racialized certain groups, in this case the Native Americans. She argues that the foundation of colonial empire is racial segregation where the people who are conquered were treated as inferior human beings. They purposely created unequal groups where the Africans and their descendant were reserved for slavery and had to give up their way of life.
Throughout human history, there has been many different problems that people have faced and conquered. Alcoholism is an issue that still continues to give trouble to its victims today. The availability of alcohol is a key factor in the consistent increase of alcoholism cases. The only limitation to buying alcohol it is being the age of twenty-one. Even then, teens and young adults still manage to get their hands on alcohol frequently.
While, the medium house household was about $41,000 majority of teens who excessively drank was above the poverty level. In addition, $750 million in hospitalization each year and over 1 billion U.S dollars in accident related alcohol use. To put things in perspective 1 out of every 4 underage drinker has a DUI and whites have a much higher rate of accident related fatalities than hispanic and blacks. $505 million have been the result of assault regarding underage drinking and of that amount $416 million were due to domestic violence. However, majority of the $200 billion in underage drinking stems from loss of work or school
Since then, the trend of binge drinking has come along in American colleges. Henry Wechsler and Toben Nelson, writers of the article Will Increasing Alcohol Availability By Lowering the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Decrease Drinking and Related Consequences Among Youths maintains that, “College students are more likely to engage in heavy drinking than their peers who do not attend college, with 2 in 5 students nationally engaging in binge drinking on at least 1 occasion in the past 2 weeks” (987). Binge drinking is defined as the consumption of five of more drinks in a row
Determined minors have a relatively easy time getting their hands on liquor, even if it 's not kept in their own homes. They find adults that will buy it for them, or use fake IDs, which in this day in age are widely available on the internet (Kluger). This causes binge drinking, and drinking in unsafe environments such as an empty house or in the woods, where something bad is more likely to happen. According to Mary Kate Cary, when she was underaged, the drinking age was 18. Frats had kegs out in the open on university property, and student gatherings more often than not, included beer.
Considering that there are both pros and cons of having the minimum legal drinking age lowered to eighteen years old, the debate has continued overtime. Legal Drinking Age in the United States In the United States an individual is considered to be an adult at the age of eighteen years old. An adult is an individual who can be
An issue that has yet to be solved is “Should the minimum drinking age be lowered from twenty-one years to eighteen years?” People have been in controversy over this topic since the late 1900s. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed in 1984, which required states to raise the legal age to purchase and possess alcoholic substances to twenty-one. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1991 after the Act was passed, the rate of alcohol consumption among people eighteen to twenty years of age dropped from fifty-nine percent to forty percent; the rate of alcohol consumption among people twenty-one to twenty-four years of age dropped from seventy percent to fifty-six percent (www.cdc.gov). More than fifty scientific
In the United States of America, eighteen years of age is when teenagers are finally considered adults by others around them. As an adult they now have the same rights as everyone around them. With the exception of one law that keeps them in a lower class. This restriction keeping them from being like everyone else is that they are still not able to consume alcohol legally. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act raising the drinking age in all fifty states as well as the District of Columbia to twenty-one years of age (“In the early 1980’s...”).
The reported issues that accompanied most drinking appeared to be associated with those individuals that were engaging in binge drinking not just ongoing
The title on the middle of the ad says it all, in terms of being persuasive. Some people may interpret the message differently than others. At the end of the day, the message is very clear and understandable. The author made it very easy for the audience to understand the message. It gives a strong persuasive message about the dangers of drinking and
Some reasons for this is that the media likes to glorify alcohol; for example, “borgs” have become a very popular social media trend that includes drinking half a gallon of vodka mixed with flavored water in one sitting. According to Elizabeth Shepard, “75 percent of young teens say that alcohol is easy to require.” This is a huge problem because the three leading causes of death in young adults are car crashes, homicides, and suicides- alcohol being the leading factor in all three (Shepard). Therefore, underage drinking trends contribute to the issue of drunk driving in the United
How many more lives must be claimed before we get a handle on the drinking and driving issue that plagues this country? This PSA effectively demonstrates imagery to affect the choice of someone who may drink and drive. While this PSA states a statistic, the image will make them consider their loved ones and deter them from such behavior. This ad should have an emotional effect on its audience by presenting pathos. The logos is represented by displaying a statistic across the poster for the viewer.
When it comes to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, I believe that he has found a common thread in humanity in the fact that humans strive for the moderate in living virtuously. However, I would argue that the thread is varied enough to have no true worth in discerning the aspects of humanity. People have too different moralities and goals. Because Aristotle allows for these “local variations”, as Martha Nussbaum later terms in her defense of Aristotle, he is acknowledging that there cannot be an overarching analysis of humanity.
But while it has succeeded in that, it is also believed that tougher rules, such as DUI rules and seatbelt safety rules have also played a part in this decrease. However, this higher drinking age hasn’t reduced drinking, its only “driven it underground,” Gabrielle Glaser states in her NY Times article. It has been driven underground to the riskiest settings, high school parties and frat parties that are unsupervised. This age raise segregates the drinking away from adults that can model moderation in drinking. If an 18-year-old high school senior is shown by his/her parent(s) how to drink responsibly and in moderation, I believe that it would greatly help in reducing the chance of making bad decisions by overdoing it, such as driving while drinking.
A poll taken on July 2014 asked the public opinion of US adults for lowering the US legal drinking age from 21 to 18. Approximately 74% of the people opposed the idea, whereas roughly 25% of the people supported the idea ("Public Opinion" 1). The statistics indicate satisfaction among the majority of the people; however, with the current laws many issues arise that must be addressed concerning alcohol use. For starters, studies show an increase of dangerous drinking habits among young adults (Hall 2). In addition, the enforcement of the drinking laws and education on alcohol is insubstantial (Moyse, Fonder 3).