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The UK public overwhelmingly supports experts’ calls for consumers to be given nutritional information, alcohol content and the official low-risk guidelines on alcoholic drinks. “Why should alcohol continue to be exempt?” asks Sir Ian Gilmore, head of the Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA), pointing … [Read more...] about Massive public support for alcohol labelling

I started writing about alcohol nearly seven years ago now. Little did I imagine I would still be hard at it today. “Why are you?” you may well ask. Well, for one, alcohol problems still kill 3m a year globally, playing a role in the untimely demise of one-in-ten people under 50, and bring misery … [Read more...] about Alcohol shows ways we can improve

The Euro 2020 organiser will not say if footballers can give secular reasons for withholding their apparent endorsement for a beer brand in press conferences. The freedom was clearly given to religious believers last week after Paul Pogba (pictured), a Muslim, publicly set aside a bottle of … [Read more...] about Euro beer placement rules unclear for non-religious

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Why don’t we fix the amount of alcohol which can be legally sold and issue tradable permits to sell it, like we do with pollution? Such "cap and trade" systems helped create commercial incentives for reducing emissions, including greenhouse gases. Democratically accountable regulators could be … [Read more...] about What about cap and trade for alcohol?