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Article: UNDERAGE DRINKING IS A 'SILENT EPIDEMIC'.(EDITORIAL)(Letter to the Editor)
- Article from:
- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2001
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Recent newspaper articles and television news stories on ''malternative'' beverage marketing speak to an issue that is very important to me, and to Kentucky.
Children see and hear messages about alcohol every day. Billboards and promotions for alcoholic beverages often display attractive young people or cartoon characters encouraging kids to think that alcohol use is accepted, expected and essential to having a good time.
It's clear that these messages are reaching our children.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest's recent poll reported that underage drinkers were more likely to try these sweetened ''alcopops,'' and that 41 percent of ...