ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO ADVERTISING
1. Alcohol Policies Project
Center for the Study of Science in the Public Interest
1875 Connecticut Ave. NW #300
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202-332-9110, ext. 385
FAX: 202-265-4954
Email: alcproject@cspinet.org
Contact: George Hacker, Director
In 1981, CSPI launched the Alcohol Policies Project to reduce the health and social consequences of drinking. Current policy initiatives include tighter restrictions on alcohol advertising and other promotions that are aimed, directly or indirectly, at young people and heavy drinkers. CSPI supports regulations to restrict the time, place and manner of alcohol advertising promotions aimed at college students, sponsorships of concerts and sports, and end the use of celebrities and youth-oriented characters in alcohol ads.
2. The Black Women's Media Project
California Women's Commission on
Alcohol and Drug Dependency
14622 Victory Blvd. #100
Van Nuys, CA 91411
Phone: 818-376-0470
FAX: 818-376-1307
Email: bwmp@cwcadd.org
Contact: Kris Baily, Director
The Black Women's Media Project addresses alcohol, tobacco and other drug-related problems through education, advocacy and community mobilization in the African-American community. The group seeks to counter the glamorous images portrayed by the alcohol and tobacco industries in their advertising through the exploitation of African-American women, and rally community support and merchant cooperation in eliminating advertising and sales of alcohol and tobacco to African-American children.
3. Center on Alcohol Advertising
2140 Shattuck Avenue, #1110
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: 510-649-8942
FAX: 510-649-8970
Email: lleiber@traumafdn.org
http://www.traumafdn.org/alcohol/ads/index.html
Contact: Laurie Leiber, Director
The Center on Alcohol Advertising stimulates and supports a national movement to end alcohol promotion to children. The Center's goal is to dramatically reduce children's exposure to alcohol advertising. The Center uses media advocacy to promote policies that protect children from alcohol advertising on TV and radio, billboards and point-of-sale promotions. The Center is responsible for Hands Off Halloween, a five year national campaign to end Halloween theme beer promotions.
4. Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
24 Belvedere Street
San Rafael, CA 94901
Phone: 415-456-5692
FAX: 415-456-0491
Email: jamesm@marininstitute.org
http://www.marininstitute.org/
Contact: James Mosher, Senior Policy Advisor
Public health advocates around the country seek the research and practical experience of the Institute when they want to learn how to craft local ordinances reducing the glut of liquor stores and alcohol/tobacco billboards in low-income communities. Acting as watch-dogs of alcohol marketing practices, the Marin Institute files shareholder resolutions challenging Anheuser-Busch's advertising and is organizing a media campaign designed to eliminate alcohol advertising images that appeal to children (see listing under Corporate Action heading).
5. National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids
1707 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 1-800-284-KIDS
Email: info@tobaccofreekids.org
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/
The Center runs the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the country's largest non-government initiative ever launched to protect children from tobacco addiction. It serves as a resource and partner for more than 130 health, civic, corporate, youth and religious groups dedicated to reducing tobacco use among America's children. The Campaign promotes tobacco control efforts through its annual Kick Butts Day, a nationwide event that encourages leadership and activism among kids.
6. Scenic America
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-543-6200
FAX: 202-543-9130
Email: scenica@soho.ios.com
http://www.transact.org/sa/scenic.htm
Contact: Meg McGuire, President
Scenic America seeks to eliminate advertising of addictive substances and strictly control all billboards. Concerned that America's scenic heritage- shoreline, plain and mountain, city and town-is under siege from commercial promotion and haphazard development, Scenic America offers communities tools to fight visual pollution: model ordinances, case studies, and technical assistance.