Doctors want govt to bring in minimum price for alcohol
Doctors from the Royal College of Physicians are calling on the government to introduce a minimum price for a unit of alcohol. From the Irish Examiner It is after new…
Plans for minimum alcohol prices and plain cigarette packs may be dropped over ‘nanny state’ fears
Anna Soubry said she was in favour of harsh new rules introducing plain cigarette packaging and a minimum price for alcohol
Expert: Ireland operates as ‘conveyor belt’ for alcohol industry
Ireland operates as a “conveyor belt” for the alcohol industry with 60,000 children starting to drink every single year, an Oireachtas committee has heard. By Cormac O'Keeffe in the Irish…
Sporting bodies are ‘in alcohol industry’s pocket’
’We facilitate the drinks industry to groom our children,' psychiatrist tells committee Dr Bobby Smyth, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist with Alcohol Action Ireland: it was with “typical arrogance” that…
Liver disease a major cause of illness and death across the EU: action needed to save lives
Liver disease is the cause of a considerable burden of illness across the European Union (EU), investigators report in The Journal of Hepatology. The authors calculate that 170,000 deaths each…
‘Stop exposing kids to booze’
From the Irish Daily Mirror. April 18, 2013.
Drinking firms ‘grooming’ our teens, says doctor
From The Herald. April 18, 2013
Doctors warn alcohol sponsorship of sports ‘grooming’ child drinkers
DOCTORS today demanded a ban on alcohol sponsorship of sporting events warning the drinks industry is “grooming” child drinkers. From independent.ie Treacy Hogan And one of the country's leading doctors…
Alcohol marketing and young people’s drinking habits – the evidence base
Alcohol Action Ireland appeared before the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications this morning and made the case that alcohol sponsorship of sports should be phased out in the interests…
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