Keep alcohol sponsorship for sports

Brand advertising, the genre that gives so much money to sport and culture, is essentially defensive. It does little more than keep a brand in the public eye so that the name remains familiar and its image strong. Consumers subconsciously trust familiar brands and prefer to buy products that others do. If a brand fades from frequent view people will quietly stop buying the product. Big breweries know this, health bureaucrats apparently do not.

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