A study published by the British Medical Journal, concludes that children who watch movies in which alcoholic beverages appear are twice as likely to start drinking than those who do not. Therefore, this publication believes that Hollywood should adopt with alcohol the same restrictions they adopted with tobacco.
The research on alcohol consumption and the factors that influence children Surveys have been based on surveys of more than 6,500 American children between the ages of 10 and 14 and that lasted two years. These factors included watching movies, advertising, friends and the family environment.
It was also studied what kind of films the children had seen and based on that it was calculated that they had watched approximately four to eight hours of alcohol consumption on the screens by their idols.
The investigation showed that those children who see alcohol in their homes and therefore have access to it easily start before drinking, in addition to exposure to alcohol in the movies, having merchandising of beverage brands and friends Drinking makes them more exposed to start drinking alcoholic beverages.
One in ten children interviewed had gifts from beverage brands such as t-shirts or caps, at least one in four recognized that their parents drank alcohol at home once a week and 29% said they could get alcohol in their own homes.
Every weekend we see young people making bottles in our streets, we don't know if they are influenced or not by what this study reveals, but if we think that alcohol consumption education starts at home.
