Article: Public health advocate wants TV shows to insert discussions on gun violence. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

BOSTON _ Dozens of videotapes of television shows crowd the shelves of Jay Winsten's office at Harvard's School of Public Health. 
There's the episode of ``Dallas'' when April Stevens knocks back a drink with her sister and says, ``I don't think we should drive. I'll call a cab.'' 
And the scene from ``Hunter'' when a waitress asks her customers, ``Who gets the soda water? You? Well, I guess somebody has to drive.'' 
Ten years ago, the phrase ``designated driver'' would have drawn blank stares. Making the concept a household word was no accident, but the result of hundreds of references to the dangers of drunk driving deliberately planted in ``Roseanne,`` ``Cheers'' ...

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