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2. Alcohol advertising - Wikipedia

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   For example, Johnnie Walker sponsor the Championship at Gleneagles and Classic golf tournaments along with the Team McLaren Formula One car. Cricket is a sport with a large amount of alcohol sponsorship. The 2005 Ashes, for example, featured sponsorship hoardings by brands such as Red Stripe, Thwaites Lancaster Bomber and Wolf Blass wines.

3. Bootleggers and Baptists - Wikipedia

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   The mainstream economic theory of regulation treats politicians and administrators as brokers among interest groups. [4] [5] Bootleggers and Baptists is a specific idea in the subfield of regulatory economics that attempts to predict which interest groups will succeed in obtaining rules they favor. It holds that coalitions of opposing interests ...

4. Alcohol tax - Wikipedia

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   An example of politics at work is the recent history of US federal taxation of alcohol. [93] In 1990, faced with a rising budget deficit, Congress justified significantly higher alcohol taxes on grounds that "increasing the alcoholic beverage excise taxes could help to place some of the [social] costs of alcohol consumption on alcohol users and ...

5. Alcoholic beverage - Wikipedia

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   Drinking hard liquor was common occurrence in early nineteenth-century United States. [29] The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a ...

6. Liquor - Wikipedia

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   Some examples of liquors include vodka, rum, gin and tequila. Liquors are often aged in barrels, such as for the production of brandy and whiskey, or are infused with flavorings to form flavored liquors, such as absinthe. Like other alcoholic drinks, liquor is typically consumed for the psychoactive effects of alcohol.

7. Convenience store - Wikipedia

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   Interior of a Japanese 7-Eleven convenience store (2014) A typical bodega in New York City (2019). A convenience store, convenience shop, bodega, corner store, corner shop, superette or mini-mart is a small retail store that stocks a range of everyday items such as convenience food, groceries, beverages, tobacco products, lottery tickets, over-the-counter drugs, toiletries, newspapers and ...

8. Surrogate advertising - Wikipedia

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   Surrogate advertising is a form of advertising which is used to promote products which are banned or limited from advertising under government regulations, such as cigarettes and alcohol via advertising another product produced by the same company in order to raise brand awareness.

9. Rum-running - Wikipedia

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   Police use a road roller to destroy bottles of illegal alcohol confiscated in Serpong, out of Jakarta, Indonesia, April 13, 2018.. Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.