The Copenhagen
Post (Denmark) - WHO concerned about Danish kids’ drinking
habits
Denmark has been
criticised for its dangerously high rates of teen drinking in a new
World Health Organisation (WHO) report.
Bloomberg (Estonia) - Estonian
Government Approves Alcohol-Tax Increase From January
Estonia’s
government agreed to raise alcohol taxes from January to keep the
budget deficit within European Union rules.
Herald Sun
(Finland) - Study: Loners likely to drink to an early death
LIVING alone has a
new downside: a greater chance of drinking yourself to death. Not
only are the bills all yours, but social isolation increases the
likelihood of dying of a smorgasbord of alcohol-related causes,
Finnish researchers say.
Helsingin Sanomat
(Finland) - Hundreds of Finnish newborn babies damaged by alcohol
Hundreds, and
possibly thousands of children in Finland are born each year
suffering from the ill effects caused by alcohol consumed by the
mother during pregnancy. According to Research Professor Ilona
Autti-Rämö of the Social Insurance Institution KELA, the problem is
getting worse.
Helsingin Sanomat
(Finland) - Alko not interested in home delivery of alcoholic
beverages
Alko, the Finnish
state-owned retail monopoly for spirits, wines, and strong beer, does
not plan to follow suit if Sweden’s Systembolaget implements plans
to offer home delivery of beverages.
Indian Express
(Sweden) - Children with alcoholic parents likely to be driven to
drink
A study has
revealed that children whose parents are alcoholics are at a greater
risk of consuming alcohol when they come across stressful situations.
The research from the Sahlgrenska Academy, at the University of
Gothenburg, Sweden, sheds new light on the link between alcoholic
parents and 50 per cent of children having drinking habits in the
future.
The Local.se
(Sweden) - Systembolaget mulls home delivery
Sweden's state-run
alcohol retail monopoly Systembolaget is considering plans to expand
its current e-commerce to include a home delivery service.
The Guardian -
Facebook deal with Diageo fuels under-age drinking fears
A
multimillion-dollar deal agreed between Facebook and drinks company
Diageo will fuel the under-age drinking epidemic by exposing
increasing numbers of young people to alcohol marketing, health
experts are warning.
The Press
Association (Wales) - Alcohol and energy drinks warning
Drinkers may be
putting themselves at risk by mixing alcohol with energy drinks, a
new report has warned. According to a new paper by charity Alcohol
Concern, caffeine in energy drinks can mask the effects of alcohol
and make drinkers less aware of how drunk they are.
The Associated
Press (USA) - Local governments tap alcohol sales for revenue
Dee Gusewelle used
to rail against the sale of alcohol, posting signs in her yard and
encouraging neighbors and passersby to keep booze out of this patch
of northern Arkansas.
Wall Street
Journal - New Rules for Alcohol Companies to Advertise and Market
on Social Networks
Alcohol marketers
are going to have to start carding at the door to their social
networking fan pages. Starting Sept. 30, spirits makers in the U.S.
and Europe will be held to a new set of self-regulatory guidelines
for advertising and marketing on social networking sites and other
digital media designed to prevent marketing their products to kids.
Herald Scotland
(Scotland) - City’s drink hot-spots to face major crackdown
HUNDREDS of
licensed premises will be visited in the coming weeks and warned they
have one month to get their houses in order as a new dedicated police
squad moves to clean up Glasgow’s alcohol trouble spots.
MSN NZ News (New
Zealand) - The problem of alcohol and sport
New Zealanders are
divided on whether professional sports people should be banned from
drinking when they are on tour.
French Tribune
(Australia) - Alcohol Important Component of Australian Culture:
Survey
A survey has found
that Australian teenagers feel that alcohol has been an important
component of their culture, and drinking to a certain limit does not
harm anyone.
Huffington Post
(USA) - Binge-Drinking Among Women Is Up: Study
People born after
the World War II era -- especially women -- are more likely than
their ancestors to binge drink and develop alcohol disorders,
according to a new review of studies.
Sydney Morning
Herald - Red repudiated to the last drop
Red wine's
reputation for preventing heart attacks has come under fire from
health experts who have declared every drink of alcohol can do you
damage.
Indian Express
(India) - Around 13000 caught driving under influence of alcohol
in Delhi
Around 13,000
drunken drivers have been challaned or jailed so far this year -- the
highest for any year in the city's history -- due to an aggressive
drive which police claim has paid high dividends with the reduction
in the number of accidents.
AllAfrica.com
(Zimbabwe) - Alcohol, Tobacco Taxes - Avoid 'Killjoy' Approach
For decades,
finance ministers around the world did complex calculations when
setting their "sin taxes" on alcohol and tobacco products.
Philippine Star
(Cambodia) - Cambodia begins to ban ads of alcohol drinks in
public
Cambodia began to
ban all advertisements of alcohol drinks in public with an aim to
reduce the alarming rate of traffic accidents that were merely caused
by drunk drivers, according to a new notice received Wednesday.
The Drum -
Analysis: Do alcohol and YouTube mix?
Farhad Divecha,
director of AccuraCast, discusses the relationship between alcohol
marketing and YouTube's potentially under-age audience.
Myjoyonline.com
(Ghana) - Comment: Feminine face of alcohol in Ghana
It’s all common
to find our women dancing, exposing part of their body, and singing
all in the name of alcohol. For the past one decade in the history of
Ghana, our country has witnessed the proliferation of alcohol
products with major advertisement in either a huge bill board in town
or ads on our major television stations.
The Conversation -
Last drinks: regulating alcohol to prevent non-communicable
diseases
Paula O'Brien
looks at the what The Lancet NCD Action Group and the NCD Alliance
name as one of the priority interventions for mitigating the impact
of NCDs: reduction in hazardous alcohol intake.
Primedia
Broadcasting (South Africa) - Government to finalise alcohol
legislation
The legislation
governing alcohol advertising could be finalised by the end of
November. Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini on Thursday
said government was going ahead with drastic methods which included
bans on alcohol marketing.
The Daily Star
(Lebanon) - Decision to prohibit alcohol sale in Hadath late at
night sparks controversy
While recent bans
on the sale of alcohol in predominantly Shiite towns have been
implemented rather quietly, a decision prohibiting the sale of
alcohol late at night is dividing residents in the town of Hadath.
Irish Times
(Ireland) - Shortall wants to end below-cost alcohol sales
MINISTER OF State
for Health Róisín Shortall has said she is in favour of introducing
a minimum price for alcohol being sold in supermarkets and other
shops to make alcohol products more expensive.
Sky News (North
Ireland) - Drink-Drive Limit In N Ireland Set To Halve
The drink-drive
limit is set to be almost halved for most motorists in Northern
Ireland - prompting speculation the change could be extended to the
entire UK.
Care2.com - Is
Booze Causing Europe’s Economic Woes?
It’s a long
known economic joke that the only recession proof investment is
alcohol — no matter what happens, consumption never seems to lag.
Oddly, the opposite is holding true for European liquor outfits,
which have had to cut hundreds of thousands of jobs because of
declining demand and increasing prices.
