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Article: African-American Youth Overexposed to Alcohol Advertising, According to Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- June 19, 2003
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WASHINGTON, June 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- 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 youth have historically had lower rates of ...