Table 1. Description of advertisements shown to respondents (Study Two).
Advertiser | Tagline | Description of ad |
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Drinkwise Australia | ‘How to drink properly’ | Black and white ad featuring an animated James Bond-like character who tells viewers to avoid drinking “like an amateur” or risk ending up too drunk. |
Drinkwise Australia | ‘Kids absorb your drinking’ | Ad shows a boy getting a beer out of the fridge for his dad, highlighting the relationship between the way parents drink and how their children grow up to drink. |
Budweiser | ‘Friends are waiting’ | Shows the friendship a man shares with his dog. Things take a twist, when one night the dog’s owner fails to return home after a night of drinking with his friends. The ad tells viewers to “make a plan to make it home” because “your friends are counting on you”. |
NSW Health | ‘Know when to say when’ | Ad shows the spectrum of consequences from drinking, not only for the drinker but also for people they come in contact with. |