Alcohol Regulation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090609103530.htm

This article is about the alcohol advertising industry in Australia. As of right now the advertisning industry for the alcohol industy is self regulated by the alcohol companies themselves. This was a bad idea to start. If you have a major industry in a country then there needs to be some sort of regulation placed on them. When you allow the industry itself to regulate what they do and how they go about it, that is asking for trouble. The Australian government should have regulated this industry from the start. Allowing the alcohol industry to regulate themselves means that they are able to advertise whatever they want where ever they want. They do not have any restrictions and are relying on morals and not government regulations. When you are dealing with people relying on their morals that is when people get into trouble. Everybody has their own opinion on what is acceptable and what is not. If the Australian government wants to get this under control then they need to make rules and laws on what and where they can advertise. The alcohol companies need to be under close watch on what they do or else it will start to get out of hand and more and more people will start to become upset about this.