If they’d like to drink a soft drink. Think about it seriously, who would want to drink it? After getting to know these things about it.
In 2014, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and several major food and beverage companies, such as McDonald’s and Kellogg’s had said that they won’t market their products to children younger than 12 years, but even today, you can see rampant indirect marketing.
Cricket tournaments and quizzes are organized at schools sponsored by Coca-Cola. In Coca-Cola ads you can spot children. So even if they don’t market to children, they will include children in their marketing.
Several celebrities have started becoming vocal about it such as Virat Kohli when he said that he will not renew the contract he had with PepsiCo because he doesn’t want to endorse something that he doesn’t actually consume.
In 2014, Amitabh Bachchan had said that he stopped doing ads for Pepsi when a young girl asked him at an event why he endorses something that her teacher calls ‘poison’.
But there’s a long list of celebrities and sportspersons that are still endorsing these companies and promoting them.
