Elly's Style: Good Bye Booze

With an imminent ban on alcohol adverts screening in the UK, tides look like they are changing the same way as the smoking campaigns. However, with pictures appearing every day of another celebrity falling out of a club, or royalty passed out on the stairs after a heavy session will there ever be a time that alcohol doesn’t appear in newspapers, magazines or on television? Advertisers create campaigns to target their consumers, but with the Government believing that when we see a bottle of wine on television we immediately want it, they are putting a stop to it. We all know the affects of alcohol, the people we see on the street are testimony to that, but with children seeing their ‘idols’ tripping over themselves after drinking bottles upon bottles of champagne they will surely be swayed into thinking that this is the norm, and although a few glasses of wine a week are said to keep you regular and it is only when binging and drinking to the point where you start to loose control that people start to think you have a problem.

The fashion is to go out and get ‘off your face’ especially on the weekends, but celebrities can sometimes have a lot more time on their hands than us ‘normal people’ and can hit the clubs every night of the week in fact.

Lindsay Lohan is prime example of this, even when she was working on a film she was turning up late or not at all. Alcohol kills thousands a year, and the numbers are growing, cutting out adverts for it is one thing, but if you’re growing up and you see your mum, dad or favourite star glugging down a bottle or two, would you not think this is the norm? But the question is when does it become too much and what will be done to stop the misuse of alcohol and other drugs that are available in the world. Is it the pressures that are in our lives and how is it that some people can cope more than others with them, drink and drugs are an escape from the world, and clubbing is the fashion, so how will taking it off the television make any difference, when we all know where to buy it and when we see pictures like Lohan very drunk after a night out and Joan Collins putting away more than a few.