Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Politics and science disagree about drinking and climate change...

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 It turns our that worries about drinking were just as woke about worries about climate change. The NYT has the story on drinking, CBS on cl...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

Psycho-social criteria for being accepted as a transplant candidate

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 Not all decisions made in transplant centers are made on exclusively medical grounds.  Given the dire shortage of transplantable organs, ot...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Alcohol is being out-competed by nicotine (and maybe by pretty good non-alcoholic beer)

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 The WSJ has the story: Nicotine Is Hot, Beer Is Not. What Vice Stocks Say About America’s Guilty Pleasures. People are smoking less, but to...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Drinking less but paying more

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 Bloomberg has the story: We May Have Already Hit Peak Booze. A habit as old as civilization is fading from our society.  By David Fickling
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

It's illegal to sell cicada infused liquor in Illinois

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 Alcohol and insects don't mix in Illinois.   The Chicago Sun Times has the story: Suburban brewery fined for selling cicada-infused Mal...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Do Americans Drink Too Much? Politics and science in the debate over guidelines

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  The WSJ has the story:   Do Americans Drink Too Much? Alcohol Is Driving a Debate in Washington . Agencies, lobbyists and lawmakers are fi...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Marijuana policy and use in the U.S., 1979-2022, by Jonathan Caulkins, in Addiction

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 Here's a paper forthcoming in the journal Addiction: Changes in self-reported cannabis use in the United States from 1979 to 2022 , by ...
Saturday, August 5, 2023

Prohibition, Moonshine, and the origins of stock car racing (NASCAR)

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Prohibition (and before and after prohibition, high taxes) gave rise to black markets in alcohol. Some of the participants in those markets ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Black markets for alcohol in Iran

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 Prohibition (of alcohol) didn't work in the U.S. from 1920-1933, and it's not working in Iran today, despite "the Islamic Repu...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

Alcoholic beverage distributors

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  The FCC investigates and regulates not just the industries we all know about, but also industries that quietly do a lot of the heavy lifti...
Friday, March 24, 2023

Alcohol and race in Australia

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 In the U.S. we certainly have a complicated history around both race and alcohol, but in Australia there may be even more complications, as...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

Lobbying for sports gambling, with cigars and whisky

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 Do addictions go together?  The NY Times has the story of how legalized (online, sports) gambling lobbyists wooed state legislators with wh...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

The market for alcoholic drinks in Bangladesh

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Doctors can prescribe alcohol in Bangladesh. The Economist has the story: Bangladesh loosens its booze laws "Consumption of alcohol has...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

Opioid deaths are behind increases in deceased organ donation

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 Medpage Today warns us not to take credit for increases in organ donation that are due to rising numbers of opioid overdose deaths.  'S...
Monday, January 27, 2020

100 years since Prohibition

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An op-ed in the NY Times points out that Prohibition didn't start suddenly when the 18th Amendment went into effect in January 1920--it...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Whiskey production is a warehouse business

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When we think of whiskey we think of distillers. But aging requires barrels, and barrels take up space for a long time.  A recent fire brin...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

MGP, the market for American whiskeys, and thoughts of the year gone by

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Suppose you would like to start producing fine bourbon, aged for ( at least ) several years in charred American white oak. How can you hit ...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

Washington State liquor stores--followup on the auction

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As I wrote  in March, Washington State auctioned off its state liquor stores in an online auction that   opened March 6, 2012 and closed Ap...
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Friday, June 1, 2012

A remnant of Prohibition ends in Washington State.

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One of the remaining remnants of Prohibition crumbled in Washington State today (i.e. starting June 1), when the state monopoly on liquor gi...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Bid for a liquor store in Washington State, or for all of them

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The State of Washington is auctioning off all 167 state owned liquor stores, in an auction running through March and April. It is what used ...