Alcohol Is No Drink

  Boony Doll.Figurine - cricket            Surfing Championships (for all ages)   

Funny how Boony has become an 'icon' for a drug...or maybe not. He is famous for his drug taking antics - albeit 'legal' ones.  

                                                           The VB - 1 Day Cricket Series   

Ads for various types of the ethanol drug can be clearly seen......

.....around the field, on the field, on the stumps, on the players cothes and caps; on the bats and in the change rooms. The ethanol drug ads are boldly sent wherever they can be seen....by all ages equally. 

   BELOW:

     Notice the VB logos on our Cricketer's caps and their shirts. Why not our Coat of Arms and something to glorify cricket instead of glorifying a drug (that has done nothing but get our sport's people into trouble over the years...not necessarily VB, but that's part of it).

                  Tooheys New - Official beer (drug) of the Wallabies.   

Other Sports groups have various other 'Official' drugs (ethyl alcohol)...... too.      

Forgetting perhaps that "Alcohol is a Drug....TOO!" and there's not supposed to be any 'drugs in sport'.

We know that most people wouldn't even seem concerned about there being beer and other alcohol ads on sport's clothing etc, but what needs to be seriously considered is that:

1) Alcohol is a recreational, psychoactive drug and it is a drug that our teens (and many adults) are having a problem with at the moment.

2) Other countries get along quite well with putting Sport's groups together without the help of Drug Sponsors. Where are all the Sport's sponsors, those that actually advertise Sport's clothing etc or that advertise things that are a positive influence?

3) Cigarettes used to be the major sponsor of Sport. They got rid of one drug that kills, hospitalises and causes illness and replaced it with another drug that does exactly  the same thing (only, without the smoke).

We're confused.....are these Sportmen or Carlton Draught employees?  We have noticed that whenever there is a news programme/Sport's segment on TV, that the players/person being interviewed are always right next to, or just in front of something advertising ....you've guessed it! Is this just a co-incidence? We think not!  In fact, we have seen the camera move around until the drug ad is in range to be read.

Not only has this player got the Carlton Mid logo on his shirt, but he's also sporting the name of the Ethanol drug dealer that sponsors his team.

No doubt children will end up wearing these shirts somewhere along the line.

 A couple of years back, a pub in our town gave shirts away to under-18 bodyboarders to wear with the name of their pub splashed across it.

You'll often see children sporting ethanol drug logos with pictures of beer glases/bottles/Bundy Bear. If they were cannabis leaves on their shirts or the word Cannabis, wouldn't everybody kick up a fuss? Alcohol is a drug......TOO!

       Players eaten up by giant field ad.                   VB Supercars Australia.....close!

Nice that Under 18's can be sponsored by Carlton Mid  -  To under 18's. alcohol is supposed to be the same as an 'illicit' drug.  It's very subtle (to some) and others couldn't care less, and yet others are totally oblivious to the fact, that the Ethyl Alcohol Drug Manufacturers and Dealers will use every medium they can to push their product (which is a drug), regardless of the time, the place or who to.  If they can get away with it, and the Government lets them get away with it, then they will do their utmost to get away with it!