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Billy Dee Versus Bed-Stuy

January 21, 2009 in Our Inebriated World

Public ads for booze may encourage problem drinking in black women, according to a Columbia University study. The earnest intensity with which the Columbia team unveiled the findings that advertising apparently works toes the line between adorable and just sad; the assertion from the press release that black neighborhoods are subject to considerably more billboards for the demon liquor is just sad.

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