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BUSINESS, Page 53Business NotesLIQUORName Your Poison
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.