Irish Examiner
(Ireland) - 'Alcohol is the virus' best friend': Keeping pubs closed is safe
thing to do, says expert
Public health expert Dr Gabriel Scally has warned that “alcohol is the
virus' best friend” and that the only safe thing to do was to keep the wet pubs
closed.
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Healthline (USA)
- The Death Toll from Excessive Alcohol Consumption: What You Need to Know
Excessive alcohol use is responsible for 93,000 deaths and 2.7 million
years of potential life lost every year in the United States.
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CGTN (Botswana) -
Botswana bans sale of alcohol, suspends liquor licences in COVID-19 battle
The government of Botswana banned the sale and consumption of alcohol in
public places and suspended all liquor licences as part of measures to contain
the spread of the coronavirus.
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Forbes - Boozy
Topo Chico Is Coming, But Coke’s Alcohol Strategy Remains A Secret
It’s been 37 years since Coca-Cola KO +1.1% has sold an alcoholic beverage
in the U.S., but that will change in 2021 when the soda giant enters a crowded
hard seltzer market through its Topo Chico brand.
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ABC News
(Australia) - Australians tell us: Why I don't drink alcohol
Alcohol may be ingrained in Australian culture, but the stereotype of a
nation of hard drinkers doesn't reflect reality. There's no one, homogeneous
Australian drinking culture, says alcohol researcher and sociologist Amy Pennay
of La Trobe University.
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Traveller - Plane
travel and coronavirus: US passengers are (illegally) bringing their own
alcohol on board
Airline passengers have long tucked those miniature bottles of booze into
their carry-on bags or filled a to-go cup with cocktails so they don't ring up
an in-flight bar tab, federal regulations against it be damned.
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BBC - 'The
most important thing to me was alcohol'
Journalist and author Bryony Gordon has been speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live
about her addiction to alcohol. Speaking to Nihal Arthanayake, she said:
"It destroys people's lives and it destroys the lives of the people around
them, and we need to talk about it way more."
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Alcohol Change UK
- Drinking to cope? Stress, boredom and alcohol use during COVID-19 lockdown
In this blog, Dr Matt Parker, Neuroscientist and Alcohol Researcher at the
University of Portsmouth, discusses the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on alcohol
use.
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News24 (South
Africa) - Booze ban: SAMRC professor hits back at alcohol industry critics
of lockdown law
Professor Charles Parry of the South African Medical Research Council
(SAMRC) has hit back at the alcohol industry following a review they
commissioned on a report which informed government’s ban on the sale of liquor.
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Dentistry Online
(UK) - Alcohol led to higher loss of working years in the UK than cancer,
study shows
Using mortality data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the
report calculated the potential working years of life lost for individuals who
died before the age of 65 years.
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2ser (Australia)
- IS AUSTRALIA’S DRINKING CULTURE CHANGING?
It can be argued that alcohol holds a huge impact within Australia’s
culture. Relaxing, work celebrations, sporting matches, social gatherings and
parties, it’s not uncommon to expect alcohol in one form or another.
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NordAN - Why
don’t people know that alcohol causes cancer?
Alcohol is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC) as a Group 1 carcinogen. And we have known it more than 30 years now.
The overall awareness of that fact is worryingly low, everywhere.
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