{"id":43516,"date":"2015-11-17T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/alcohol-justice-and-us-alcohol-policy-alliance-urge-dc-metro-leaders-to-keep-transit-system-alcohol-ad-free\/"},"modified":"2015-11-17T13:18:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T17:18:04","slug":"alcohol-justice-y-us-alcohol-policy-alliance-instan-a-los-lideres-de-dc-metro-a-mantener-el-sistema-de-transporte-libre-de-anuncios-de-bebidas-alcoholicas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/alcohol-justice-y-us-alcohol-policy-alliance-instan-a-los-lideres-de-dc-metro-a-mantener-el-sistema-de-transporte-libre-de-anuncios-de-bebidas-alcoholicas\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol Justice And US Alcohol Policy Alliance Urge DC Metro Leaders To Keep Transit System Alcohol-Ad Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 17, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span>-based <a href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alcohol Justice,<\/a> and <span class=\"xn-location\">North Carolina<\/span>-based <a href=\"http:\/\/alcoholpolicy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">US Alcohol Policy Alliance,<\/a> are asking the Board of Directors of the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to keep placing positive public health &amp; safety benefits over the questionable revenue gains that might be derived from allowing alcohol ads on the DC Metro. <\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20110727\/DC41105LOGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20110727\/DC41105LOGO<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;There is clear and compelling evidence that alcohol advertising on municipal property encourages youth alcohol consumption, which leads to harm,&#8221;<\/i> stated <span class=\"xn-person\">Diane Riibe<\/span>, Chair, US Alcohol Policy Alliance. &#8220;<i>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/substance_abuse\/publications\/global_alcohol_report\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">World Health Organization&#8217;s 2014 Global Status Report<\/a>, the more alcohol ads kids see, the more likely they are to drink, to start drinking at an earlier age, and to drink more.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Excessive alcohol consumption causes an estimated <span class=\"xn-money\">$249 billion<\/span> in economic harm annually in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> with <span class=\"xn-money\">$100 billion<\/span> in direct cost to federal, state, and local governments. According to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/alcohol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CDC report,<\/a> <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span> had the highest cost per person of alcohol-related harm at <span class=\"xn-money\">$1526<\/span>, compared to an <span class=\"xn-money\">$807<\/span> national average. <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Alcohol ads on transit vehicles or other public property is unacceptable,&#8221; <\/i>said <span class=\"xn-person\">Bruce Lee Livingston<\/span>, Executive Director \/ CEO at Alcohol Justice.<i> &#8220;Instead, transit agencies should demand that sign brokers bring in advertising that does not pose documented threats to the safety of children. Municipalities should protect youth by refusing to advertise harmful products such as alcohol.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n<p>WMATA provides free transportation to thousands of DC public and charter school students through their <i>Kids Ride Free on Rail<\/i> program. Selling alcohol advertising on the Metro system is effectively offering up youth as a captive audience to alcohol marketers.<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol Justice&#8217;s 2013 national report titled: <i><a href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/images\/reports\/aj_transitad_report_f_low.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">These Bus Ads Don&#8217;t Stop for Children: Alcohol Advertising on Public Transit,<\/a> <\/i>states that <i>&#8220;it makes no sense for public transit agencies or cities to allow alcohol advertising that recoups less than 1% of their operating revenues while governments in the U.S. bear the burden of over <span class=\"xn-money\">$90 billion<\/span> in annual costs from alcohol-related harm. Less than 1% of total operating revenue is just not worth all of the added risk of youth exposure to ads and alcohol-related public costs.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Supporters of continuing the DC Metro alcohol ad ban are encouraged to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.votervoice.net\/MI\/campaigns\/43368\/respond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TAKE ACTION HERE<\/a><\/b>: to tell the WMATA Board to &#8220;Keep the Ban.&#8221; The Board will meet this <span class=\"xn-chron\">Thursday, November 19, 2015<\/span>, to vote on the issue. All comments submitted to the board for review on this issue must be received no later than <span class=\"xn-chron\">noon EST<\/span> on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Wednesday, November 18, 2015<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Contact: <span class=\"xn-person\">Michael Scippa<\/span> 415-548-0492 <br \/><\/i><\/b><b><i><span class=\"xn-person\">Diane Riibe<\/span> 402-598-8210<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 17, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span>-based <a href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alcohol Justice,<\/a> and <span class=\"xn-location\">North Carolina<\/span>-based <a href=\"http:\/\/alcoholpolicy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">US Alcohol Policy Alliance,<\/a> are asking the Board of Directors of the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to keep placing positive public health &amp; safety benefits&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}