Detol, can’t you come up with a better advertisement?

Oct 08, 2003

SIR — Every time I watch the Detol advertisement on WBS Television I fear for all the children out there

SIR — Every time I watch the Detol advertisement on WBS Television I fear for all the children out there.

A toddler is shown bending into the toilet bowl and putting her hands in it playing. This is dangerous because we all know that at this age, children are very impressionable.

I am sure many of them are trying to find the germs in the toilet whenever they can. Surely, this is a dangerous advert and Detol can come up with better ways of promoting their soap, as they have done before.

Please save our children! While Detol products are superb and deserve the aggressive advertisement the manufacturers are engaged in, Detol management ought to have some semblance of social responsibility. Is it too difficult to realise that Detol’s advert is a disaster for our children?

Mary Matama
Kampala

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