'Free drinks for women' offers may be banned• Draft industry code sent to bar and restaurant owners
• Licensees say they need it 'like a hole in the head
Sam Jones and Robert Booth
Monday October 13 2008'
Bars could be banned from offering free alcohol to women and restaurants may be obliged to serve wine in glasses with marked measures under new proposals being considered by the government, it emerged yesterday.
The moves are intended to cut public drunkenness - and its attendant health and social problems - by encouraging people to drink sensibly.
Other initiatives under consideration include the compulsory display of health warnings wherever alcohol is sold, curbs on free wine, whisky and beer tastings and a ban on drinking games.
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