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27th October 2018
04:23pm BST

The group's researchers at Nottingham University watched 611 shows and 1,140 ads shown on British TV between the hours of 6 and 10 pm.
They found that half of the content featured alcohol and claimed that this can affect teenagers' drinking habits.
"There is strong evidence that viewing alcohol advertising or imagery has an uptake on subsequent alcohol use in young people," researcher Alexander Barker told The Sun.
The study, published in the Journal of Public Health, recommends that the UK's television watchdog Offcom and the British Advertising Standards Agency ban alcohol imagery on TV before 9pm.Explore more on these topics:
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