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College sports fans are more likely to binge drink than their non-sports fan peers, according to a report released this week by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) College Alcohol Study and authored by HSPH lecturer Henry Wechsler...
...Wechsler defines binge drinking as five drinks for a male and four drinks for a female, a threshold other experts have criticized...
...Wechsler has been an outspoken critic of lax attitudes toward on-campus drinking, and his research has been cited as justification for the ban of kegs at this year’s Harvard-Yale game...
Echoing the arguments of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, Wechsler pointed to efforts by the alcohol industry to market to college-aged sports fans as a reason for their binge drinking...
While sports fans are disproportionately young men—also the heaviest drinking demographic—Wechsler said, “they are also targeted by the alcohol industry through advertising and through special drink promotions...