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Article: Coalition calls malt liquors 'harmful gateway' drugs.
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- Modern Brewery Age
- Article date:
- August 28, 1989
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Coalition calls malt liquors `harmful gateway' drugs
A coalition of 22 Black, Latino and health organizations recently charged that the beer industry pitches malt liquor primarily at Blacks and Latinos, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) announced.
The coalition has urged Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady to stop companies from targeting these groups as well as limit the alcohol content of malt liquor to five-percent.
"Not only are malt-liquor products harmful themselves, but they are `gateway' drugs that could pave the way to crack-cocaine and other illegal drugs," said ...