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Say whatever you want about her music, but she's essentially acting as the Marlboro Man for hard drug abuse.
Hardly. Her drug use is wrecking her career, her voice and her performances. If anything she's today's poster child for why drugs are dangerous and why drug abuse is no laughing matter.
Her songs occasionally mention her drug use, and when they do so they handle it honestly - nothing more, nothing less. "I didn't get a lot in class," Winehouse moans in "Rehab", "but I know it don't come in a shotglass." That one lyric is worth 10,000 inane "Just Say No" PSA's, and stands in sharp contrast to the product shoveled at us over Clear Channel radio stations by music moguls over the past 20 years or so (Clive Davis and "Crack is whack" Whitney, anyone?).
