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Article: African-American Youth Overexposed to Alcohol Advertising.
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- PR Newswire
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- June 19, 2003
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WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcohol companies placed ads on the 15 television shows most popular with underage African-American youth and consistently exposed underage African-American youth to more alcohol ads than non-African-American youth in magazines and on radio in 2002, according to a new report from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown University.
The marketing of alcohol products in African-American communities has, on occasion, stirred national controversy. The Center's study is the first systematic review of alcohol advertising directed to the nation's second- largest minority group.
"African-American ...