• WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca
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      14 days ago

      I think these people haven’t been aware of near-beer sales to kids going back over 60 years. Kids have been able to buy them here in Canada for longer than that, that is just the oldest person I have know to buy a 6pack of near-beer as a 5 year old kid.

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      14 days ago

      You know how you can’t buy those sugar “cigarettes” anymore? Same reason.

      You also can’t buy snortable children’s Tylenol.

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        14 days ago

        You can, actually. They’re on Amazon.

        Snortable children’s Tylenol… That’s a great idea. Do you work in marketing?

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          14 days ago

          It’s interesting because, in the US technically they aren’t allowed to be labeled Cigarettes (in most countries they are outright illegal), Just did check amazon, and you can see the actual packaging just says “bubble gum”, or “candy”. Though I think the amazon listing using the word, may actually not be within the law.

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      14 days ago

      Because it’s clear they want kids to start drinking budweiser young. It’s marketing budweiser to minors, whether it has alcohol or not. And it’s marketing alcohol (“it’s BEER for under age”) to youth… Beer by default has alcohol. This is marketing beer to literal children.

      What do you think all that marketing does? Gets them drinking more budweiser as adults, and probably interested in alcohol while underage. Shady as fuck.