NASCAR lifts its ban on liquor ads
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NASCAR lifted its ban on liquor ads Wednesday, opening the door for teams to be sponsored by distilled spirits. &quot;We felt the time was right,&quot; NASCAR president Mike Helton said.
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Putin signs law restricting airtime and content in effort to curb his country&#39;s alcohol intake. MOSCOW  - A sweeping ban on beer advertising in Russia became law Tuesday in a move to curb the country&#39;s
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced Wednesday that his car for Hendrick Motorsports would carry No. 88 and would be sponsored by Amp Energy Drink and the National Guard.
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TORONTO (CP) - Stock car racing in Canada received a boost Tuesday as NASCAR announced a multi-year operational and marketing agreement with CASCAR.
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The rule change comes after complaints about the lack of taste in billboard advertisements by several upstate law firms.
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NASCAR took its strongest stance against cheating Tuesday, suspending the crew chiefs for Matt Kenseth, Kasey Kahne, Scott Riggs and Elliott Sadler and docking all four drivers points before the season-opening Daytona 500 for failing inspections.
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Lawyers for Michigan and New York argued yesterday that the direct shipping bans are not discriminatory because the Constitution&#39;s 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition in 1933, also permits states to regulate the alcohol industry.
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The first Nascar ad to publicize a book, ÂThe Book of Fate,Â a thriller by Brad Meltzer, ran on the hood of a car in a Nascar Busch Series race on Friday.
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Full-page ads in college newspapers Friday call on university leaders, athletic conferences and the NCAA to "stop the madness" by banning alcohol marketing from college sports.
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NFL clubs may no longer serve alcohol at team functions or on buses or flights, extending a ban that until now applied only in locker rooms.
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PARIS -- Wine ads in France, once restricted to little more than a photo of the bottle, could boast about smell, taste, and color under a compromise approved unanimously by parliament's upper house. The amendment aims to settle a battle between struggling vintners and anti-alcoholism campaigners over a 1991 law limiting ads to dry information on name, manufacturer, alcohol content, ...
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In a novel move to curb drunk driving, New Mexico is using talking urinals to remind drinkers to not get behind the wheel when drunk.
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NASCAR vowed last summer to crack down on cheaters, pledging to toughen penalties in a sport where bending the rules is as common as banging bumpers. Officials made good on that promise Tuesday.
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Embattled French winemakers on Thursday welcomed an easing of tough alcohol advertising laws, hoping new rules allowing adverts with a splash of color and imagination will cure the sector of its chronic sales headache.
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A sweeping ban on beer advertising has become law in Russia in a move aimed at curbing Russians&#39; vast alcohol intake and changing attitudes to a beverage which the country officially terms a soft drink.
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Nascar reached an agreement with AT&T that will allow the company to sponsor Jeff Burtonâs car through 2008. The agreement ends months of legal wrangling involving AT&T, Nascar and Sprint Nextel. AT&T sued Nascar over its refusal to allow it to replace Cingular as the primary sponsor of the Richard Childress Racing car after the telecommunications companies merged. Nascar prohibited the name change because of its exclusivity agreement with series sponsor Sprint Nextel.
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A $500,000 donation by Republican beer baron Pete Coors to his own Senate campaign has triggered a new federal law that eases fund-raising restrictions for his Democratic opponent.