Booze Ads Blasted
- By Unknown
- Nov. 11 1996 00:00
By abandoning a voluntary ban on broadcast advertising that dates back to the 1930s, the industry will be "exposing our children to such ads before they know how to handle alcohol or are legally allowed to do so," the president said Saturday.
Clinton praised the four major broadcast television networks for declaring that they will not accept advertisements for hard liquor. He urged the nation's 1,200 independently owned television and radio stations to follow the networks' lead.