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
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.