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WASHINGTON—To hear Coca-Cola tell it, the tea and fruit drinks it sells under its Fuze brand will help you avoid cancer, heart disease, colds, flu, and infections of the lungs and kidneys. 

WASHINGTON—The makers of Airborne—a multivitamin and herbal supplement whose labels and ads falsely claimed that the product cures and prevents colds—will refund money to consumers who bought the product, as part of a $23.3 million class action settlement agreement. 

We applaud the soft drink industry for coming over to the right side of this issue last year when it struck a deal with President Clinton and the American Heart Association to help shift the beverage mix in schools. 

Without fanfare and with little public notice, media advertising of alcoholic beverages in the United States has been dropping precipitously -- a 46% reduction between 1986 and 1993 -- according to a new study released today by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). 

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) today censured alcoholic-beverage industry giant Joseph Seagram and Sons for violating a decades-old voluntary ban on hard liquor advertising on television, and pledged to mount a vigorous campaign to knock the ads off the air.