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- BUSINESS, Page 53Business NotesLIQUORName Your Poison
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- Will Absolut on the rocks be upstaged by Black Death and
- tonic? Not if the government can help it. The U.S. aims to block
- imports of Black Death vodka, a beet-based beverage distilled
- in Belgium and being test-marketed in Chicago, Los Angeles and
- other cities. Health officials claim that the vodka's marketing
- theme, which includes coffin-shaped packaging, is designed to
- encourage young drinkers. The brand's U.S. wholesaler, Cabo
- Distributing, denies targeting minors. But the Bureau of
- Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, with exquisite literalness, is
- blocking the liquor on grounds of misleading advertising, since
- the brand seems to promise poison and plague but delivers only
- vodka.
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