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...In one of its official publications, the federal Center For Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), which supports anti-drinking programs throughout the country, was generous to the point of praise about the work ofArtfux, a group that (illegally) defaces alcoholadvertising billboards: "While Artfux recognized that the billboards were private property, these artists viewed their actions as the lesser of two evils...

...Our population doesn't drink for its health effects," he says...

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...Drinking remains "pretty steady" and has been "high right along...

...One thing [governments] should not do is provide generalized recommendations...

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...While fully understandable, CEI should not think that it is being singled out for the glacier treatment...

...David Hanson, a professor of sociology at SUNY Potsdam and author of Preventing AlcoholAbuse, writes that while beer drinking even by the very young was common early in our history, an increasing concern with public drunkenness led to social crackdowns of a somewhat Muslim nature starting in the early nineteenth century...

...Alcohol is the number one drug problem in the country...

...Gramling concludes raising the legal drinking age in 1986 did not significantly change the alcohol consumption of eighteen to twenty year olds in Louisiana...

...Such subtlety is not good enough for CEI's Ben Lieberman, who says his orga nization is prepared to sue the bureau for not responding in a timely manner to its petition, which was delivered over a year ago...

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...That victory was not without its ironies, including the fact that not all beer manufacturers initially supported the change...

...Lewis Perdue, author of The French Paradox and Beyond and publisher of Healthy Drinking magazine, notes a 1991 Harvard study which found that male doctors who drank on average one-half to one drink per day had 21 percent less coronary artery disease than abstainers, or a relative risk of .79 for the drinkers compared to i.oo for abstainers...

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...Remember, the dietary guidelines refer to good and bad effects of drink...

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...I 29 The American Spectator •October 19 9 6 deputy associate director for regulatory programs at ATE "They want to move up to the next level...

...The court added that "our review of the evidence reveals the State's own statistics clearly show that, in Louisiana, persons between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-three are involved in significantly higher numbers of alcohol related injury and fatality accidents than eighteen to twenty year olds...

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...Men who consumed one to one and a half drinks per day reduced their Coronary Artery Disease risk by 32 percent, three to four and a half per day reduced it by 43 percent, and those drinking more than four and a half drinks per day reduced their risk by 59 percent...

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...Whether by design or not, the reports to Congress likely reflect a contemporary fact of life...

...The welfare, perhaps even the survival, of NIAAA, depends on (1) the apparent magnitude of the alcohol problem, and (z) whether it is made to appear that a disease (rather than a moral or social problem) is being attacked...

...When asked if the guidelines will affect school alcohol education policies, Bill Modzeleski, director of the Department of Education's Safe and Drug Free Schools program, which supports programs in 97 percent of the nation's school districts, said, "Probably not...

...Coors Brewing Company was forced to wage a court battle over the course of eight years to be allowed to include the strength of beers on its labels...

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...In recent years the government has undertaken a number of questionable public-safety campaigns, from banning lawn darts (which killed three people over the course of seventeen years) to targeting college coeds with AIDS prevention messages...

...27 The American Spectator • October r 9 9 6 • Consistently drinking three or more units a day is not advised as a sensible drinking level because of the progressive health risk it carries...

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...Similar skepticism showed up in a ruling this year by the Supreme Court of Louisiana, which affirmed a lower court's ruling that the state's 21-year-old drinking age was unconstitutional...

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...hile there is solid scientific consensus on the bene fits of moderate drinking, don't expect a quick change in American attitudes about alcohol, or national policies...

...by 1855, thirteen of the then forty states and territories had instituted prohibition...

...Regular consumption of between two and three units a day by women of all ages will not accrue any significant health risk...

...The case ended last year when the Supreme Court ruled 9-o to allow brewers to disclose the information, thus overcoming a 1935 law that was enacted after Prohibition's repeal...

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...The Women's Christian Temperance Union, Hanson reports, pumped out over i billion pages of anti-alcohol propaganda between 1865 and 1925...

...In the meantime, he notes, "Dietary guidelines disconnected the language of `alcohol and other drugs,' which HHS and others have used for years...

...Furthermore, Artfux contended that they were providing health information that was hidden from the public by the alcohol and tobacco industries...

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...28 October r 9 9 6 • The American Spectator The same spirit holds forth among those who design and implement alcohol "awareness" programs in the public schools...

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