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Alcohol to carry new health warnings

BillieTheBot · 2007-05-27 19:37:26

Good old alcohol. Just about all of us love a bit of drink every now and then, whether it be a shandy, a pint of Carling, or maybe a few shots of vodka. Such is my love affair with ethanol that any story about it gets my attention. Here's the latest. Aunty BBC tells us that: "Warnings to drink sensibily will be introduced…

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Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

June 2007

Aladdin wrote: »

The solution seems simple: hang all the ambulance-chasing lawyers and anyone who tries to take the piss by trying to sue manufacturers for not telling them the obvious.

The only big cases of those were against the tobacco companies in the US because they persistantly lied about how dangerous smoking was.

As for warnings, they do seem to work, and given smoking is dangerous I cant see the big problem.

As for alcohol, warnings are a slight move in the right direction (a relatively pointless one I think) what would be far more effective is a ban on all alcohol advertising.

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