Quote: Winslade's Offload "Difficult dilemma we have here. Nicotine is a fairly addictive drug. But then so is alcohol and society currently is more accepting of this than nicotine. So if you ban advertisement of one, you probably have to do the same with the other.
My immediate response to nicotine advertisement would undoubtedly be 'ban it', but thinking about it logically, drunks cause a large number of social problems, and liver disease from alcohol abuse is a killer. So you could argue that between the two, alcohol poses more problems than nicotine.'"
The big difference is you can't passively drink someone else's alcohol.