title: Network commercials promote legal drugs: outnumber anti-drug PSA's 45-to-1.
abstract: During the week of September 16 to 22, 1990, commercials promoting drugs and alcohol outnumbered the networks' news stories, documentaries, and PSA's about illegal drugs by a ratio of almost 39-to-1. If you consider the PSA's alone, the commercials promoting drugs and alcohol outnumbered them by a ratio of almost 45-to-1.
authors.affiliation: University of Central Florida, Orlando.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fedler
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Raker
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schefsky
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Soluri
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000329:Advertising / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000434:Alcoholic Beverages; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D004366:Nonprescription Drugs; D013690:Television / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D004366:Nonprescription Drugs