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| 1/10/08 |
Drink To Your Health
Drinking buddies: one, Teetotallers: zero. That was the final score of a twenty-year study measuring the affects of alcohol on health. The research, published in the European Heart Journal, found that moderate drinkers have a...
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| 11/1/07 |
If Bacon Is Wrong, We Don't Want To Be Lite
A “groundbreaking” report yesterday from the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR, known globally as the World Cancer Research Fund) revealed that diets including bacon, cheese, wine, ice cream, hot dogs, beer, and other food...
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| 6/30/05 |
Fun, Fireworks, And Food Cops?
Far too few Americans remember that the Founding Fathers, authors of modern liberty, greatly enjoyed their food and drink -- from drafting the Declaration of Independence over pints to serving French fries in the White...
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| 1/21/05 |
WHO Wants Your Alcohol
Back in 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) commissioned researchers affiliated with the neo-prohibitionist Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to study the efficacy of various alcohol policies. Following in the footsteps of their anti-tobacco and...
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| 6/11/04 |
MADD Goes Too Far
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) began with the admirable goal of reducing drunk-driving traffic fatalities by educating the nation about the devastation caused by drunk drivers. For the first 15 years, this strategy paid off:...
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| 11/24/03 |
Buckeyes Hop On Neo-Prohibitionist Bandwagon
Flush with more than a million dollars from the neo-prohibitionist Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Alcohol Policies Project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) attacks the responsible consumption of beer, wine,...
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| 9/17/03 |
MEMO To MADD's New Celebrity Board
From: The Center for Consumer Freedom
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| 9/12/03 |
Quote of the Week
This week a National Academy of Sciences panel recommended that the federal government raise taxes on adult beverages (including tripling excise taxes on beer), ostensibly to deter underage drinking. Of course, most of the panel's...
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| 9/9/03 |
Anti-Alcohol Foundation Is A Duck
Last month we told you about a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel on underage drinking that is expected to call for increased taxes on adult beverages. Tomorrow morning the NAS panel will unveil its...
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| 8/19/03 |
Your Tax Dollars At Work ... for Anti-Alcohol Activists
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will soon release a major report on how to prevent underage drinking. Americans deserve a serious, science-based examination of this important topic, but the NAS report will almost certainly...
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| 5/19/03 |
JAMA Drinks, Crunches Numbers. Again.
"The more popular a magazine is with teens, the more likely it is to contain alcohol ads," reads one outrageously misleading headline -- based on the equally misleading research bought and paid for by the...
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| 5/7/03 |
MADD About New Jersey
"We are disgusted. We will be the last in the Northeast to pass this bill. New Jersey will even be behind states like Alabama." That's Robert Jakubowski of the New Jersey chapter of Mothers Against...
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| 5/5/03 |
SPECIAL REPORT: Cinco De Mayo Con Robert Wood Johnson
"Don't hijack Cinco de Mayo," Bill Gallegos and Bernardo Rosa write in a USA Today op-ed, accusing alcohol companies of using today's holiday as a "marketing prop to encourage drinking among Latino and Chicano youth."...
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| 4/29/03 |
Open Containers And Individual Rights
Under the outrageously misleading headline, "Montana Legislature Balks at Outlawing Drunk Driving," the Associated Press reports that Montana lawmakers recently decided not to ban open liquor containers in cars and trucks. Mothers Against Drunk Driving...
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| 4/29/03 |
Alcohol And The First Amendment: The Good News
A federal appeals court has ruled that Cleveland's ban on billboards advertising adult beverages is unconstitutional. The judge took issue with "a ban on the communication of truthful information about legal alcoholic products to adult...
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| 4/29/03 |
Who Wants A $100 Million Tax On Alcohol?
The California Assembly Committee on Health will vote today on a bill that would levy around $100 million in special taxes on producers of beer and distilled spirits (a recent amendment removed winemakers from the...
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| 4/17/03 |
Drink Responsibly. Drive Responsibly.
An article in today's New York Times begins: "In the latest salvo in the battle over liquor and beer advertising, a new commercial this week encourages people to feel free to have a drink before...
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| 4/14/03 |
Modern Day Prohibitionists Want to Ration Your Alcohol
Most people would consider rationing alcohol positively draconian, but the "nearly 400 researchers, advocates, health professionals, and civic leaders" who gathered at Alcohol Policy Conference 13 last month are not "most" people. "Rationing of alcohol...
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| 4/10/03 |
SPECIAL REPORT: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Neo-Prohibitionist Agenda
Seventy years ago this week, beer became legal in the United States (at least beer with less than 3.2 percent alcohol content). According to the Denver Post, "it was 1933 when President Franklin Roosevelt announced...
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| 4/3/03 |
A Trifecta Of Bogus Studies On Alcohol Marketing
U.S. Senators Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Chris Dodd (D-CT) yesterday announced "their intention to monitor underage drinking trends and the extent to which alcohol industry advertising is reaching underage youth, including possibly holding a hearing...
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