Marc Katz, sports writer for the Dayton Daily News out of Ohio, has a good idea: He thinks the NCAA should ban beer commercials. Huge numbers of college students binge drink - over 40% of the student body in most schools - and more than 20% of the students need drug rehab or some sort of help. Over 90% of parents think that drinking is part of college life and many allow their high-school-aged kids to drink at home. What most parents don’t realize is that nearly half of underage drinkers become alcoholics and will need an alcohol or drug rehab program.

Most colleges, including Ohio State and Ohio University, have problems with students drinking too much. Mr. Katz had some interesting statistics in his article: 1700 college aged students die each year from alcohol related accidents including drunk driving, there are 600,000 injuries, 700,000 assaults and nearly 100,000 incidents of sexual abuse - all good reasons for not showing drug or alcohol commercials on TV..

Despite these outragrous statistics, most of Mr. Katz’s readers were horrified at the concept of not seeing beer commercials. But the numbers speak for themselves.

Parents should insist on their kids not drinking and the NCAA should ban beer ads. Prescription drug and alcohol abuse are sending millions of people to drug detox and drug rehab, why make matters worse with ads promoting drinking? One last point, Ohio University is a top ten party school. Does your child go there?

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