Brazil alcohol ban hard for retailers to swallowGovernment tries to limit TV advertising and sales along highways
By Andrew Downie | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
from the February 19, 2008 edition
São Paulo, Brazil - A decade after it introduced some of the toughest antitobacco laws in the world, Brazil is proposing similar legislation aimed at curbing growing rates of alcohol abuse.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wants to prohibit daytime alcohol advertising on radio and television. His government temporarily banned the sale of alcohol on federal highways earlier this month and aims to implement similar measures at urban gas stations.
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