Our Inebriated World

Billy Dee Versus Bed-Stuy

By C.A.B. Fredericks
Published: January 21, 2009

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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