Dieste Harmel & Partners’ Creative Director Mack Simpson tell us the story of an ad campaign he created several years ago for Anheuser-Busch’s Tequiza, how his campaign was mentioned in Koren Zailckas‘ book Smashed and how he feels somewhat responsible for contributing to this girl’s and others binge drinking at a toung age. Of course, Simpson and the rest of know, as he writes, “advertising is incapable of holding a gun to someone’s head and ordering them to chug a beer bong,” but the idea that advertising, in some way, might contribute to that, gives pause.
