Irish Examiner view: We need to stand up to the alcohol industry

The alcohol industry should have no role in influencing attitudes among people who are too young to drink.

From time to time one sees online reproductions of old — very old — tobacco advertisements in which smiling, white-coated doctors recommend particular brands of cigarette as being less irritating than their competitors.

It’s easy now to smirk at the gullible public that swallowed those ads, but perhaps we should look around, because it is clear that dissonant coalitions aren’t just a matter of ancient history.