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  (New York) City Health Department wants lawmakers to ban 'alcopops,' popular flavored malt drinks
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Last EditedBob  May 25, 2011 06:32am
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AuthorReuven Blau
MediaNewspaper - New York Daily News
News DateWednesday, May 25, 2011 12:30:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThey banned smoking in parks and flavored tobacco. Now city officials are coming after your Mike's Hard Lemonade.

The city Health Department wants state lawmakers to make it illegal for bodegas to sell "alcopop" - premixed, carbonated, flavored malt drinks with alcohol content as high as 12%.

"We are very concerned about these," Health Commissioner Thomas Farley testified at a Council hearing yesterday.
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