Sir, - Have you noticed Guinness's latest assault on our schoolchildren, with its "Reasons to Miss the Last Bus" poster campaign? Among the reasons it suggests for staying on in town and drinking more Guinness product is that you might end up on the bus sitting next to your old headmaster.
Forget the "old". Who cares, if you're not still in the school, and might have reason to fear the encounter? More and more, drinks advertising, not just from Guinness, is cynically targeting our children. What is next? Imitate the heroin pusher with free tinnies offered at the school gates? If the Government is not prepared to face down these people and ban such alcohol advertising outright, let older drinkers at least respond to these attacks on our children by boycotting the products of those firms whose ads most blatantly target the under-age. - Yours, etc.,
MARTIN WALSH,
Howth Road,
Clontarf,
Dublin 3.