Posted on 03/15/2005 12:35:36 AM PST by nickcarraway
LOS ANGELES, March 14 (UPI) -- Malt liquor beer drinkers are more likely to be homeless, unemployed, receive public assistance and tend to drink more alcohol, according to a U.S. study.
"Measuring MLB (malt liquor beer) consumption is difficult because
MLBs differ from other beer beverages in two important aspects: container size and alcohol content by volume," said Ricky Bluthenthal of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles.
"We found that the combination of these differences resulted in the average malt liquor drinker in our study consuming 80 percent more alcohol per drink than the average regular beer drinker."
In addition, MLBs can be sold in containers as large as 40-ounce bottles, known as "40s," commonly sold chilled and wrapped in brown paper bags for immediate consumption, according to Rhonda Jones-Webb of the University of Minnesota.
Based on previous research, we know that MLBs because of price per
volume and availability are likely to be more attractive to lower-income drinkers, according to Bluthenthal.
The findings are published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
BLAME THE MALT LIQUOR BTTT! lol
Wait a minute!....I like malt liquor and I'm still employed...does that mean????
Wow. I'm usually one to defend research that seems silly on first blush but turns out to be serious. I remember the press lampooning studies of how spiders walk, only to find out that the learnings were used to design new space probes.
This is ridiculous though. Newsflash: malt liquor will f*** you up! Alert Dave Chappelle.
As a lifelong resident of the urban, industrial Midwest, I can tell you that I'm SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I tell you!!! Why, this is a disgrace! Brown paper bags, INDEED! 40 ounce bottles in paper bags - do they have no SHAME?!?
(psssst!.....pass the OE 800.......)
They don't serve it a the Lockheed commisary?
.99 cent 40s of OE or the Bull, brings back memories...
I'm just wondering if my tax dollars paid for the groundbreaking piece of brilliant research.
What was bothersome to me, when I managed a liquor store in Lincoln, Nebraska, was that the marketing of this heavy-duty beer was concentrated solely upon one class of people (a class of people who should never have been drinking in the first place; life is rough enough the way it is, without the added complications of alcoholism)--the same sorts of people also had the curious habit of purchasing Newport cigarettes.
"Niche marketing" is fine, as long as it enhances, not debilitates, life.
In Palmdale?.....
-- Malt liquor beer drinkers are more likely to be homeless, unemployed, receive public assistance and tend to drink more alcohol, according to a U.S. study....well shit on a shingle!!!!....sign me up for A.A.A......
Consider this one a victory- malt liquor is cheap. Imagine the caviar study.
Yep, your days are numbered...
I work in a bar, within a casino, in a highly industrial neighborhood and am intimately familiar with the demographic of which you speak, but I still don't think Poland is under water.
(cryptic cross-thread humor/off)
L.O.L.....no malt liquor here....
"Find the 40 in this picture."
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