Yes. If a major corporation sets a major marketing campaign to increase profits. It will spend the resource needed to achieve that goal. There are literally million of employees working right in some capacity now on exactly creating ways on how to make sure their alcohol sells.

I didn’t say that.

I think people who are already struggling will find it more difficult to right the ship when the habit or addiction that’s dragging them down is constantly dangling in front of their face. When you feel like everyone else must be doing the same thing it’s much harder to realize that you may have a problem or where the problems are coming from.

Years ago everyone chewed tobacco or smoked. Some people believed that smoking was good for them. Plenty of people watched their wallets empty and their teeth fall out of their heads, but it was normal because everyone else was doing it too right? With everyone in films firing up, cool characters like Joe Camel showing you how badass you could be as a smoker, and a commercial or billboard telling you about the newest smokes every few minutes, it’s a lot harder to think that maybe if you didn’t smoke as much your coughing would stop.

The advertising may not be the root cause, but normalizing something that also has to be age restricted should be a red flag in the first place.