Don’t shoot the advertising

Advertising has been made an easy scapegoat in the debate about childhood obesity. It should not be beyond the wit of the advertising industry to come up with simple arguments to support the freedom of advertisers to advertise their brands, and to dispel the myth that advertising is a powerful inimical force.

Don't shoot the advertising

Hugh BurkittThe Marketing Society

The Advertising Association recently held an excellent debate at the House of Commons where it offered, somewhat ironically, the motion 'Advertising is bad for your diet'. The proposition was heavily defeated, but sadly this was something of an empty victory as the voters were almost exclusively members of the advertising and marketing community. Elsewhere in the Palace of Westminster the view had already taken hold that advertising is bad for children's diets, and legal restrictions on the freedom to advertise food brands to children will soon be imposed by Ofcom.

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