Network commercials promote legal drugs: outnumber anti-drug PSA's 45-to-1.
During the week of September 16 to 22, 1990, commercials promoting drugs and alcohol outnumbered the networks' news stories, documentaries, and PSA's about illegal drugs by a ratio of almost 39-to-1. If you consider the PSA's alone, the commercials promoting drugs and alcohol outnumbered them by a ratio of almost 45-to-1.
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