The word addiction" brings to mind alcohol and drugs. Yet, over the past 20 years, a new type of addiction has emerged: addiction to social media."
I love going to small craft breweries and sampling their beers.
But I'm beginning to wonder if the fast-growing popularity of these small-batch breweries and their products is more a fad associated with a decent economic expansion rather than a true change in the American beer drinker's taste buds.
When the National Football League (NFL) announced last week that it would try allowing spirits companies to run commercials during games for the first time in league history, it announced a long list of restrictions along with it
Mixing an energy drink with alcohol might seem fairly innocuous, but it has been linked with ugly tendencies. A 2013 study found that people were twice as likely to be involved in an alcohol-linked car wreck or a sexual assault if they consumed an energy-drink-and-alcohol cocktail, compared to those who drank just alcohol.
If the NFL's recent decision to lift its longstanding ban on liquor advertisementsis likely to make the upcoming season a slightly more bibulous affair, football fans shouldn't expect to see the hard stuff on the Super Bowl menu any time soon.
The liquor industry is finally ready for some football. Whiskey, vodka, rum and other spirits will be allowed to advertise in NFL games this season for the first time according to new league rules that give liquor a boost in its long quest to be seen as socially acceptable as beer.
On this day in 1851, the state of Maine passed a law banning the sale of alcohol.
Summer ? the season of binge-drinking ? is upon us. And who is likely to be knocking back more than a few? Older women, according to a study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
These old ads provide a window into a world where the message is the same: alcohol can positively transform you and your universe from the inside out.
2016 isn't a year that the beverage alcohol industry will be toasting.