Gov. Martin O?Malley on Thursday delayed signing a bill classifying sweetened alcohol drinks ? so-called alcopops ? as beer because of pressure from groups opposed to teenage drinking.

“Now I?m going to think about what they said,” he told reporters after he signed more than 200 bills, but not SB745, which would have formally designated malted beverages, such as Mike?s Hard Lemonade and Smirnoff Ice, as beer.

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