TV & VIDEO - July 7, 1987

Due to widespread poverty in Sri Lanka, television advertisements that feature children to promote commercial products have been banned in that country, Ministry of State officials said. The officials noted that parents had complained that they were too poor to buy the products demanded by their children after watching such advertisements. “An ad which shows a child asking his mother for an expensive milk brand prompts other children to ask their mother for the same product,” Minister of State Anandatissa De Alwis told the country’s two television stations.