FAD campaign on the shared responsibility of alcohol consumption in minors.
For several weeks now, through a very intensive outdoor advertising campaign, FAD has been warning that alcohol consumption in minors is everyone’s responsibility. Most readers of this blog have surely seen its main poster. This is a social awareness campaign. But how many have become aware of the problem that affects and threatens so many young people.
In Spain, the average age of initiation to drinking is 13.9 years. And last year 5,000 minors were treated for alcohol poisoning. The situation requires urgent action to curb these consumption rates, as we reviewed in this recent article.
Thus, FAD’s new campaign carries the slogan “The problem with alcohol consumption by minors is that we don’t see it as our problem. Shall we do something?” About this need to raise awareness of the serious problem it represents. And to make clear that this risk situation must be addressed by society as a whole.
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