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MetroWest Technical Assistance Center: Fostering change through coalition building

The Center on Alchohol Marketing and Youth
Underage Drinking in the United States: A Status Report, 2005

Television, Alcohol Ads and Youth in 2003
New CAMY Report Says TV Alcohol Ads Up 97 Percent 2001-2003 Television is the primary medium for advertisers, and this also holds true for the advertisers of most leading alcoholic beverages. As shown in the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth's October 2004 report, Alcohol Advertising on Television, 2001 to 2003: More of the Same, television alcohol advertising in 2003 resulted in alcoholic beverage advertising not only reaching legal-age drinkers, but also substantially exposing young people to their products, sometimes to an even greater extent per capita than adults.
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Full Report and an Executive Summary from the CAMY homepage

Parental Involvement Directly Influences Underage Drinking
From the Healthy Communities E-Newsletter:
Parents who supply alcohol for underage teen parties are more likely to be raising binge drinkers, according to a recent report from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Conducted as part of the National Evaluation of the Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Program, the study involved over 6,000 teens and young adults in 242 communities. Results appear in the current issue of the /Journal of Adolescent Health.
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Washington State Institute for Public Policy
Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth


 

 
 
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