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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

New laws 'fail to curb binge drinking'
By Rebecca Smith and Nic Fleming

13/11/2007

All-day drinking laws introduced by Labour are condemned today by leading academics for failing to curb Britain's culture of binge drinking.

Deaths from alcohol have doubled since the early 1990s, according to a major study, but the Government has ignored authoritative evidence over the way to tackle the dangers of drinking.

Measures to combat binge drinking have failed and the controversial move to relax licensing laws must be reviewed, says the report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

It says tax on alcohol must be increased and the hours that bars and shops are allowed to sell drink should be restricted.
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