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9/26/02 --
Action
Alert: Tell the NFL to Reject Ads For Hard Liquor
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2/26/02 --
Action Alert: Local Television Affiliates Say No to NBC's Hard
Liquor Ads
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12/28/01 -- Press
Release: Groups thank television networks for refusing liquor ads
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12/20/01 -- Press
Release: Liquor ads don't belong on network television
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12/14/01 -- Press
Release: Don't let General Electric's NBC pollute network television like General Electric polluted the Hudson River
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12/11/01 -- Backgrounder:
broadcast liquor advertising
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6/23/98 -- Press
Release: National poll sparks renewed demand for investigation of
broadcast liquor ads
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5/27/98 -- Action
Alert: Show support for an FCC notice of inquiry on broadcast liquor advertising
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11/19/97 -- Action
Alert: Time to act on alcohol advertising
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11/5/97 -- Press
Release: Alcohol advertising inquiry
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11/3/97 -- Action
Alert: Co-signers needed for House resolution on FCC liquor ad inquiry
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6/26/97 -- Action
Alert: Co-signers needed for House resolution on FCC liquor
ad inquiry
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6/12/97 -- Press
Release: FCC Commissioner Rachelle Chong
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6/10/97 -- Press
Release: FCC Commissioner Rachelle Chong
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6/9/97 -- Press
Release: Questions to Commissioner James Quello
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6/2/97 -- Action
Alert: To support FCC inquiry
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4/24/97 -- Petition:
To FCC for notice of inquiry
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2/28/97 -- Letter:
To U.S. House supporting "Just Say No Act"
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12/18/96 --
Petition Summary and Cosigners
of Alaska's
petition to FCC
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11/96 -- Action
Alert: Seagram liquor ads spread on TV and radio
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10/24/96 --
Coalition letters on broadcast liquor advertising
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8/2/96 -- Action
Alert: "Don't let our kids drown in Seagram's TV ads" (New York Times ad)
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6/13/96 -- H.R. 3644:
"Just Say No Act"
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5/16/96 -- Press
Release: Notice of broadcast liquor advertising
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3/8/04 --
Alcohol Advertising Litigation
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1/21/04 -- Press Release:
Malibu Rum Slammed for Signing Teen-Friendly Shaggy.
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11/24/03 -- Update:
Air and Space Museum Says Bud Light Plane Not a Problem.
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11/21/03 -- Press Release:
Smithsonian Accused of Skewing History to Please Anheuser-Busch: CSPI
Calls for Restoration of Historic Plane to Its Pre-Bud Glory.
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11/19/03 -- Update: 20
U.S. Representatives sign letter to remove Bud Light logos from the
National Air and Space Museum plane.
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10/31/03 -- Action Alert:
Help Get Beer Ads Out of the Air and Space Museum!
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9/9/03 -- New Report: FTC has issued its Report on Alcohol
Marketing and Advertising to Congress. Click here to see the press
release and report.
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3/3/03 --
Issue Update: TTB's New
Guidelines Doom Health Claims for Labels and Advertising.
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10/14/02-11/18/02 --
Beer Ads in Comics:
Comic strip Tank McNamara takes on beer advertising starting November
18,
2002. Look for the syndicated strip in
your local newspaper or check out the website. The strip's authors,
Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds, last satirized alcopops and marketing to youth
during the week of October
14,
2002.
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7/26/02 -- Action Alert: Ask Your Representative to Sign a "Dear Colleague" Letter Calling for a
Congressional Hearing on the Impact of Television Alcohol Advertising on Children.
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6/17/02 --
Action Alert: Call for a Congressional Hearing on ALL Television Alcohol Advertising.
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3/19/02 --
Action Alert:
The Time Is Now For A Commerce Committee Hearing On Alcohol Advertising.
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1/10/02 -- Statement:
Alcohol advertising: Are our kids collateral or intended targets?
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1/9/02 --
Action Alert: Stop hard liquor ads on television
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10/30/00 --
Action Alert: Urge the
Knight Commission to put alcohol sponsorship and advertising on the NCAA reform agenda
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4/25/00 -- Testimony before the ATF:
Concerning health claims and health-related statements for alcoholic beverages
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3/17/00 -- Action Alert: Notice of public hearings regarding health claims on alcoholic-beverage
containers
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1/31/00 -- CSPI's Comments: Regarding
health claims on alcoholic-beverage containers and in advertising
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1/14/00 -- Talking Points: ATF
rule-making regarding health claims on alcoholic-beverage containers
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11/4/99 -- FYI:
ATF seeks comments on "health-related" statements on alcoholic-beverage labeling and advertising
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9/10/99 -- Action Alert:
Ad recklessly promotes binge drinking culture and undermines colleges' struggle to combat
excessive drinking
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3/2/99 -- Press
Release: CSPI criticizes new wine industry advertising campaign
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10/28/98 -- Action
Alert: The Wine Institute’s proposal to use new labels implying that there are
health benefits to consuming wine
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9/15/97 -- Alcohol
billboards ads
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4/10/97 -- H.R.
1292: Voluntary Alcohol Advertising Standards for Children Act
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3/18/04 -- Press Release:
Beware the 'Side' Effects of Alcopops: Ads in Party Schools' Papers
Target High-Calorie Drinks.
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10/9/03 --
Action Alert: Comments Needed to Improve Alcopops Regulation.
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10/9/03 --
CSPI's written comments to the TTB on proposed alcopops regulations.
[PDF]
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9/9/03 --
Press
Release: FTC Report Misses Mark on Alcopops.
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6/6/03 -- Call for
Comments: The U.S. Treasury Department has called for public
comments on the regulation of malternatives. TTB has extended the comment period to October 21,
2003.
Click here to see the June
2, 2003 Federal
Register Announcement.
[PDF]
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11/5/02 -- Press
Release: Alcopop Labels Dupe Consumers and Regulators.
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11/5/02 -- Letter:
CSPI urges BATF Director Bradley Buckles to promulgate rules that correct
consumer confusion about alcopops and regulate liquor-branded alcopops as if
they were distilled, rather than brewed, alcoholic beverages.
[PDF]
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10/02 -- Survey
Results: Data from the July 2002 and October 2002 studies
performed by Global Strategy Group questioning adults and teenagers about
perceptions of alcopop products.
[PDF]
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9/17/02 -- Letter: CSPI
asks BATF Director Bradley Buckles to examine the impact of liquor-branded
alcopop advertising on underage persons.
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6/02 --
July 2002 press
conference materials
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5/01 --
May 2001 press
conference materials
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6/29/01 -- Community Action:
Promote the National Media Campaign to Prevent Underage Drinking
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5/23/01 -- Update:
National Media Campaign to Prevent Underage Drinking
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4/10/01 -- Action Alert:
National Media Campaign to Prevent Underage Drinking
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4/4/01 -- Statement: George
A. Hacker, Director, Alcohol Policies Project on the National Media
Campaign to Prevent
Underage Drinking
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9/14/00 -- Update:
Action needed! National Media Campaign to Prevent Underage Drinking - H.R. 5137
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8/30/00 -- Action Alert: National
Media
Campaign to Prevent Underage Drinking Act of 2000
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7/15/99 -- Update:
House Appropriations Committee votes down measure to add underage drinking prevention
messages to ONDCP youth anti-drug media campaign
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7/13/99 -- Vote: House
Appropriations Committee supports alcohol industry in yea-nay vote of 32-23
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7/12/99 -- Press Release:
Overwhelming majority of Americans say alcohol should be part of a youth-anti drug media campaign
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7/1/99 -- Vote: Senate
votes to table Lautenberg-Hutchison-Byrd amendment (S. 1282) in a yea-nay vote of 58-40
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6/14/99 -- Press Release: Report
highlights alcohol-industry contributions to House Appropriation Committee members
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6/14/99 -- Report: Under the influence: A compilation of alcoholic-beverage industry
political contributions
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6/7/99 -- Statement of George A. Hacker:
Legislation authorizing underage drinking prevention messages in the ONDCP youth anti-drug media campaign
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5/24/99 -- Update:
Potential amendment to authorize ONDCP to include alcohol prevention messages in the
anti-drug media campaign
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5/17/99 -- Action Alert: Potential
amendment to authorize ONDCP to include alcohol prevention messages in the anti-drug media campaign
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4/21/99 -- CSPI
Asks: What is the ONDCP "National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign?"
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8/13/04 --
Resource:
A Factbook on State Beer Taxes -- A compilation of charts and graphs to
provide both inter-state comparisons and intra-state analyses of beer
taxes.
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3/26/03 --
Beer-Tax Action Alert: Stop alcohol tax cuts in the
108th Congress! Oppose beer-tax
rollback bills S. 809,
H.R. 1305
and H.R. 52.
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1/24/03 --
Take Action: Send a letter to Congress to stop federal alcohol
tax cuts!
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6/02 --
Action Alert: Oppose the beer-tax rollback -- 6/02
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4/02
--
Fact Sheet:
Stop the beer-tax rollback!
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4/02 --
Questions that Congress should ask the beer industry
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4/02 --
Press Release: Stop the beer-tax rollback!
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4/02 --
Statement of George A. Hacker, Director, Alcohol Policies Project
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10/01 --
Fact Sheet: Beer consumption and taxes
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5/96 -- Publication:
State Alcohol Taxes and Health: A Citizens Action Guide
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5/31/96 -- Press
Release: State Alcohol Taxes and Health: A Citizens Action Guide
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4/27/04 -- Issue Update: CSPI and MADD
Counter Beer Industry Lobbying Blitz.
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3/16/04 --
Action Alert: Help Strengthen U.S.
Dietary Guidelines on Alcoholic Beverages!
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1/30/04 --
Action Alert: Urge Feds to Improve Alcohol Beverage Labeling!
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12/16/03 -- Press Release:
"Alcohol Facts" Label Proposed For Beer,
Wine, and Liquor.
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3/3/03 --
Issue Update: TTB's New Guidelines Doom Health Claims for
Labels and Advertising.
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10/11/00 -- Fact Sheet: Key
findings on adolescent alcohol use from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse and
the Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education (PRIDE) Survey
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6/15/00 -- Statement of George A. Hacker:
Alcohol money calls the shots on Capitol Hill
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5/31/00 -- FYI: New U.S.
guidelines on alcohol consumption drop positive spin on drinking
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5/19/00 -- Update: Alcoholic beverages listed
as a known human carcinogen
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12/21/99 -- Adolescents and Alcohol Use: Data from
the Monitoring the Future Study
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3/11/99 -- Action Alert: On the prohibition of certain alcoholic-beverage containers
