<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e3bc6eb5-38db-4db1-a7e3-746d3d518884/BA234E0E-E58A-4E0A-81A6-ECC3683EA582/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/02/alcohol-branded-apparel-linked-to-adolescent.html" href="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/02/alcohol-branded-apparel-linked-to-adolescent.html" style="font-size: 11px;">health.usnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/02/alcohol-branded-apparel-linked-to-adolescent.html"><H1>Alcohol-Branded Apparel Linked to Adolescent Drinking</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/02/alcohol-branded-apparel-linked-to-adolescent.html"><P>The report is published in the March issue of the <I>Archives of Pediatrics &amp; Adolescent Medicine</I>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/02/alcohol-branded-apparel-linked-to-adolescent.html"><P>The Dartmouth scientists who did the research said this is the first study directly linking alcohol-branded merchandise to adolescent drinking and outcomes such as binge drinking that can result in illness and death. In addition, the data provide evidence that this merchandise promotes teen drinking and could be a basis for enacting policies to restrict this alcohol-marketing practice, the researchers said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/02/alcohol-branded-apparel-linked-to-adolescent.html"><P>Children who start drinking before 15 are four times more likely to become alcohol-dependent, seven times more likely to be in a <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink3"><FONT color="#005497"><SPAN class="kLink">car </SPAN><SPAN class="kLink">accident</SPAN></FONT></A>, and 11 times more likely to be involved in alcohol-related violence later in life than people who wait until 21 to start drinking, Jernigan said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/02/alcohol-branded-apparel-linked-to-adolescent.html">This study adds to the evidence linking alcohol-branded merchandise and teen drinking, McClure said.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BA234E0E-E58A-4E0A-81A6-ECC3683EA582/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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