Alcohol ads flood young people’s social media: Young Australians are being exposed to an alcohol advertisement on social media every 2 minutes and 43 seconds on average, according to University of Queensland research. PhD candidate Brienna Rutherford from UQ’s National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research examined the social media accounts of 125 university students aged 17 to 25, and found they had been exposed to almost 800 alcohol advertisements. “We asked participants to scroll through their Facebook or Instagram accounts for 30 minutes and to screenshot alcohol advertisements,” Ms Rutherford said. “The results were confronting – 71 students, some
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