Sentences with word «alcopops»

The health secretary has called for taxes on alcopops to be increased to stem the rise in binge drinking among young people.

Klein has been a vocal opponent of alcopops and sought a ban on the caffeinated form of FourLoko in New York.

The 2008 alcopops tax may have led to a marked reduction in alcohol - related harm among young people, the doctors» website 6minutes (registration required) reported.

Clampdown: The Tories will impose tax hikes on strong beer, cider and alcopops in a bid to rid Britain of anti-social behaviour and binge drinking

With so much choice, but little resemblance to cider, consumers appear to be tiring of flavoured ciders in the same way they did with alcopops.

As reported by the NHS, a standard 330 ml bottle of 5 % alcopop contains 237 kcal in which time you could've consumed 3 Lees teacakes, whilst a pint of 5 % beer is equivalent 215 kcal, so a packet of McCoy's salted crisps.

M: I - 2 (this punchy alcopop acronym suits the film perfectly) has this plot.

(For non-UK readers, WKD was a popular alcopop back in the old days.)

It reads like a desktop of Photoshopped image searches materialised in branded fantasy objects, like gold WKD alcopops and «fluorescent yellow V20 filled with the iridescent bodies of a dozen blue bottle flies».

Focusing on consumer needs for the purpose of determining whether there were indeed products in competition with the caffeine - spiked alcoholic beverages (para 62), the EFTA - Court then held that beer and alcopops without stimulants catered to a different audience.

But a banker burning his bonus on Bollinger can cause just as much trouble as a teenager on alcopops.

A small cut in duty on beer - offset by higher taxation of alcopops -(among other measures) is unlikely to compensate for the effect of cheap booze sold by supermarkets.

$ 1.6 bn hole in budget as alcopops tax fails Prime Minister Kevin Rudd faces a $ 1.6 billion budget hangover, after anti-binge drinking campaigner Steve Fielding joined the coalition in the Senate yesterday to sink the big tax increase on alcopops.

The company is going to start selling an alcopop, or Chu - Hi, exclusively in the Japanese market.

The limited value of taxation as an answer to these kinds of problems is shown by the very limited success of the tax on «alcopops» and by the popularity of cheap party drugs as a substitute for heavily taxed liquor.

The adventures were essential reading in an age when the only «alcopop» was ginger beer!

Sen. Jeff Klein, scourge of the alcopops, today praised an agreement struck between the Federal Trade Commission and FourLoko that would require the drink maker to repackage and relabel the can.

Some of the worst intoxicating beverages to drink are beers, ciders, alcopops and sweet wines.

The Chicago - based professional organization for physicians expressed worry in a statement that such drinks, also known as «alcopops,» are being marketed by the liquor industry directly to young people.

The drinks menu is equally large and features teas, coffees, fresh fruit juices, milkshakes, lassi drinks, beers, alcopops, spirits, wines, soft drinks and cocktails.

The alcopop - style drink will have an alcoholic content of three to eight per cent ABV COCA - COLA is planning to break -LSB-...]