'Drink water': Ronaldo removes Coca-Cola bottles in press conference
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited in threads about sugary drinks, alcohol and advertising as a famous example of a star publicly rejecting a sponsor's product.
What it is
A one-minute Telegraph news clip of Cristiano Ronaldo moving two Coca-Cola bottles aside at a Euro 2020 press conference and saying 'Drink water.' The moment went viral and drew praise from anti-obesity campaigners.
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Cites paganel · 2023-07 · on “Against Alcohol”
For me good alternatives are good coffee and plain or sparkling water. About this latter choice I have to give an unironical shootout to /hydrohomies and to Cristiano Ronaldo [1] [1] [this video]
Cites ANewFormation · 2025-01 · on “Collection: More Doctors Smoke Camels”
I don't understand why you think there would have been 0 evidence. The countless respiratory illnesses associated with smoking are readily obvious by taking even a small sample of longterm smokers - a decent chunk of them will sound like smokers, be occasionally hacking up a lung, and so on. People obviously knew smoking was unhealthy, but chose to do so anyhow. And companies naturally worked to trt to strengthen that cognitive dissonance. Same thing today, but it's slightly more subtle. For instance in a typical Coke ad you'll generally see people that look nothing like regular Coke drinkers - health, fitness, and good body weights abounds. Ronaldo's Coke/water moment gave me a vast amount