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• More booze ads targeted at young people
ST. LOUIS - Alcohol companies are spending less money on radio advertisements, but the messages are reaching a disproportionally large number of minors, according to an alcohol industry watchdog group. In spite of spending less overall, about 36 ...
• Inmates already angry at Paris Hilton
Hilton has been ordered to turn herself in by Tuesday to begin her sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. Some 15 photographers, reporters and television crews staked out positions at three entrances to the ...
• Actress Sean Young enters rehab
LOS ANGELES - Sean Young has entered rehabilitation for alcohol abuse following a weekend outburst in which she was heckling from the audience at the Directors Guild of America awards. The 48-year-old actress was escorted from the ballroom at the ...
• Man bets on wacky Elvis fanatics
A Web site is hawking a chewing gum that it claims can reduce the alcohol level on any breathalyzer test by up to 60 percent. The so-called DUIX gum doesn't come cheap — ten pieces will set you back $12.99, although the Web site claims a money-back ...
• Don't breathe your bourbon, officials warn
Teresa Barton, head of the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy, said banning alcohol vaporizers is a matter of public safety, not preserving the state’s sipping whiskey industry. She said such devices could become “a real deadly trap ...