The Baltic Times (Estonia) - Ansip:
current alcohol and tobacco excise taxes are optimal
Estonian Prime
Minster Andrus Ansip expressed an opinion at the Riigikogu on
Wednesday that although Estonia has one of the highest alcohol excise
taxes in Europe, the tax rates of our excise goods are, all in all,
optimal, Postimees Online reports.
ERR News (Estonia)
- Duty-Free Allowances on Border Could Become Weekly Limits
Officials plan to
tighten up the rules on duty-free allowances for cigarettes and
alcohol on Estonia's border with Russia.
YLE uutiset
(Finland) - If you look under 30, get your ID out
Members of the
Finnish Grocery Trade Association have agreed that anyone who looks
less than 30 years of age will have to produce a valid picture ID to
buy tobacco or alcohol products as of the start of next year.
Skemman (Iceland)
- The effect of the economic climate on alcohol and drug
rehabilitation
The effect of
economic conditions on the use and abuse of alcohol and other
addictive substances has received some attention. However, this
literature is in its infancy and limited focus has been on detailed
mechanisms or reasons for changes in consumption, be it initiation of
use, cessation or level changes of consumption. In this thesis we
examine how the economic climate affects the degree of addiction at
the time of admission to rehabilitation.
Chicago Tribune
(USA) - Online alcohol sales fueling underage drinking
What do you know
about online alcohol sales? I must admit that I knew little about
this industry and was amazed with some of the statistics I recently
discovered while reading an article in the September 2012 Archives of
Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. If you're the parent of a 'tween
or teen, here's another topic for discussion and for monitoring.
New Zealand Herald
(New Zealand) - Tougher rules for alcohol advertisements
Advertisers
selling alcohol or promoting the environmental benefits of their
products will soon have less wriggle-room in ambiguous
advertisements.
The Australian
(Australia) - Bans on alcohol spawn generation of lucky children
THOUSANDS of
indigenous children in remote Queensland communities, provided they
are aged 10 years or younger, have never witnessed hundreds of their
community members engaged in wild, drunken brawls, seen women being
bashed or heard their screams in the night. Nor have they learned
next morning that somebody was violently murdered the previous
evening.
GlobalPost (UK) -
One fifth of British parents think alcohol improves their
parenting skills
Nineteen percent
of Britain’s mothers and fathers believe that alcohol improves
their parenting skills, a new report has found. Perhaps beer goggles
make your kids look cuter.
The Australian
(Australia) - Industry revolts as federal health agency proposes
ban on discount booze
CHEAP wine will be
banned under a federal health agency's plan to make drinkers pay at
least $8-$10 for a bottle of booze.
Fox News (Haiti) -
Haiti prime minister announces sin tax on alcohol cigarettes to
pay for education
Haiti's government
wants to raise $100 million for a special education fund by putting
additional taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling, the Caribbean
nation's prime minister said Monday.
Medical Xpress -
Veterans are at higher risk of alcohol abuse relapse due to
smoking
In a new study
published in Frontiers, Dr Timothy Durazzo and colleagues from the
San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San
Francisco, expand upon their decade of research showing that smoking
while kicking the alcohol habit impairs memory, learning and other
cognitive skills—ultimately making it more difficult to weather the
long storm of sobriety.
Newstrack India -
Moderate alcohol intake 'ups irregular heart beat in heart disease
patients'
Even "moderate"
drinkers have a higher risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) than
low-alcohol consumers, researchers say. An analysis of the
association of alcohol consumption with the development of AF among
subjects with coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, or other
manifestations of cardiovascular disease (CVD) was based on subjects
in two large antihypertensive drug treatment trials.
BBC News - Baby
boomer alcohol harm 'more likely than in young'
More NHS money is
spent treating alcohol-related illness in baby boomers than young
people, a study says.
News-Medical.net -
Alcohol problems may be influenced by neighborhood
Disadvantaged
groups living in poor neighborhoods are much more likely to suffer
alcohol problems than their wealthier counterparts, research shows.
Berwick Today (UK)
- Social cost of alcohol adds to minimum unit price debate
NEW figures have
revealed the full extent that alcohol misuse is having on the
Northumberland economy - costing the workplace alone £44.69m in days
lost.
Telegraph.co.uk
(UK) - Middle-aged drinkers 'unwittingly risking their health'
Professor Sir Ian
Gilmore, chairman of the Alcohol Health Alliance, said “chronic”
overconsumption of alcohol not only led to liver disease, but also
increased rates of cancer, heart disease and stroke.
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