Advertisers selling alcohol or promoting the environmental benefits of their products will soon have less wriggle-room in ambiguous advertisements. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) today (Mon) released its updated code for environmental claims and for the advertising and promotion of alcoh
The Australian National Preventative Health Agency is expected to propose this week that cheap wine be banned from sale in Australia. The idea of a national 'floor price' on alcohol, which would see drinkers made to pay between 8 and 10 dollars for a bottle of grog, has been welcomed by health grou
PLANS to introduce minimum pricing on alcohol in Scotland have been postponed indefinitely by ministers as a result of a growing legal challenge to the controversial move.
THE VINTNERS’ FEDERATION of Ireland has hit out at plans by Diageo to put up the price of a pint. A pint of Guinness as well as Budweiser and Carlsberg is expected to rise by about five cent.
Drunken youngsters who think nothing of drinking a box of bourbon and Coke in one night have sparked a rise in serious assaults, a Christchurch addiction expert says.
Baby boomers take up the lion’s share of NHS spending on alcohol abuse. The first ever map of alcohol-related health costs in England reveals that the 55-74 age band imposes a greater burden on the state than any other age group.
From the Huffington Post UK Time Out magazine has been ordered to cease publishing an advert for "London's Biggest Pub Crawl" after the advertising watchdog declared it was "socially irresponsible".…
Time Out magazine has been ordered to cease publishing an advert for
EU claims plans to introduce a 50p per unit rate could infringe free trade rules
Georgia State University's Dominic Parrott and Christopher Eckhardt at Purdue University in Indiana have received a five-year, $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine the underlying factors behind alcohol intoxication and violence between significant others and spouses.