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Written by Adam Cozens

My cousin, who runs the popular website Reuters, has employed his peeps to come out with a report destined to SHOCK THE WORLD:

"U.S. popular music is awash with lyrics about drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Medical researchers have reviewed the words of the 279 top songs of 2005 to estimate just how common they are.

Their report on Monday showed a third of the songs had explicit references to substance abuse. And two-thirds of these references placed drugs, alcohol and tobacco in a positive light by associating them with sex, partying and humor, according to the team led by Dr. Brian Primack of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

They calculated that with Americans aged 15 to 18 listening to 2.4 hours of music daily, they hear 84 musical references to substance use a day and more than 30,000 a year."

Frankly, I am shocked. I mean...drug AND alcohol reference in my music? When DID this start? iThe outrage goes on...

"While we have not had the opportunity to thoroughly assess the study, it's important to note that music is generally a reflection of society," said Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group for the U.S. recording business."

Oh, so now I AM a pothead? Because I listen to pot-headish music?

Honestly, I feel that much like this blog posting, this article was written merely to kill time and fill space. Nothing was gained from reading this except for maybe getting some concrete numbers to support future agurments for parents against their angst-ridden teens.

You can read the rest of this titilating report here.