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Lay off the salt, the soda, the fat — and the now the booze.
The city Health Department yesterday unveiled its latest campaign aimed at changing New Yorkers’ eating and drinking habits, urging them to go easy on the holiday cheer. The ads remind people to “stop drinking while you’re still thinking.”
The two posters, which will run in subways during the holiday season, come just two weeks after the department said there were more than 70,000 emergency-room visits last year due to binge drinking.
One shows a man in a shirt and tie with his face bloodied — presumably from a bar fight — and a tag line saying, “Two drinks ago, you would have walked away.”
The other poster has a young woman slumped on steps, with the contents of a purse spilled out onto the sidewalk, cautioning that, “Two drinks ago, you could still get yourself home.”
Dr. Thomas Farley, the city health commissioner, said the ads were necessary to counter all the potential for binge drinking during this time of year.