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Friday, November 16, 2007

Young People and Alcohol Advertising
An investigation of alcohol advertising following changes to the Advertising Code

16 November 2007
  • The main objective of this research is to measure the extent to which the changes to the alcohol advertising rules made in 2005 may have impacted on the appeal of a selection of alcohol advertisements to people under the age of 18 years. The research specifically deals with the Advertising Standards Code changes to television advertising of alcohol.

  • This report contains findings of the research conducted post-regulatory change among 11-21 year olds in the UK. The study has been designed in a similar way to the benchmarking study published in 2005 and the main objective and methodology remains the same – investigating the appeal of a selection of alcohol advertisements using qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
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