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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

ASA clears anti-alcohol TV ads


A TV campaign featuring children as young as eight talking about being pressurised into sex and taking drugs has been cleared by the Advertising Standards Authority despite dozens of complaints that it was offensive and distressing.

The two TV ads form part of a Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) campaign about the wider impacts of drinking alcohol on decisions that young people go on to make. . . . . .

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