Word: liquor
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...industry also plans to fight the new advertising rules in court as an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. Earlier this year the Supreme Court struck down a state law that banned the mention of liquor prices in advertising. "The evidence is clear," says Brennan Dawson, spokesperson of the Tobacco Institute, "that the FDA's rules do not address the reasons youngsters smoke, will not work to reduce youth access to tobacco, and are an illegal expansion of this federal agency's authority." Or as they used to say in those old cigarette commercials, we'd rather fight than switch...
...Area liquor vendors said college students do contribute to the underage drinking problem...
...There's a lot of underage drinking at the University," said Jim Hill, who owns Libby's Liquor Market, a Mass. Ave. liquor store. "There's a lot of people of age purchasing for people in dorms and houses...
Hill said that kind of illegal drinking tarnishes the reputation of liquor vendors...
According to Scali, the effort was reinvigo rated in November 1995 when the Hyatt was found to have violated its liquor license that October by allowing a party of 700 Asian American college students at which alcohol was served to minors. A fight broke out, and several partyers were stabbed. As part of its settlement, the Hyatt agreed to resurrect the Task Force as CLAB...