Sentences with phrase «minimum alcohol policy»

Death and ill health will be averted now Scotland's pioneering minimum alcohol policy has finally cleared legal hurdles, say John Holmes and Petra Meier

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Commenting on the findings of this report, IAS Chief Executive Katherine Brown said: «The desire to support pubs has often been used as a reason to resist policies to reduce alcohol - related harm, including minimum unit pricing, increasing alcohol taxes and stricter drink - drive laws.

These findings highlight divisions in the alcohol industry, with several major multinational producers actively opposing policies such as minimum unit pricing (MUP), which would increase the price of the cheapest products sold in shops and supermarkets.

Many fail to realise that the UK has driven multiple progressive policies aimed at improving the health of the population, whether plain packaging for cigarettes, minimum pricing units for alcohol, or the most recent sugar tax.

Ministers argue the minimum price policy would cut crime by 50,000 a year and result in 9,000 fewer alcohol - related deaths over the next ten years.

«We call on the Government to better support our emergency services and implement policies to ease this burden, such as minimum unit pricing for alcohol.

It is disappointing that five years have been wasted on a fruitless exercise when the government could have been making real progress by delivering on its commitments to introduce evidence based policies such as minimum unit pricing for alcohol.

Evidence shows that the most effective policies to reduce alcohol harms, including harms to others, are: - Raising the price of the cheapest alcohol, through taxation and minimum unit pricing - Regulating the density of outlets that can serve alcohol and restricting the permitted hours of sale - drink driving laws, including a lower legal blood alcohol limit and random roadside breath tests - Screening and brief advice for people who are at risk of drinking to a level that is harmful to themselves and others However, the most effective approach is a comprehensive, multi-sectorial set of measures that work together to reduce levels of harmful drinking.

The policy of minimum alcohol price per unit has the potential to become one of these devices.

When you realise this then policies as diverse as tax cuts for the rich, minimum alcohol pricing and HS2 fit into a coherant whole.

A new study of liver patients by the University of Southampton shows that a Minimum Unit Price (MUP) policy for alcohol is exquisitely targeted towards the heaviest drinkers with cirrhosis.

Professor Nick Sheron, from the University of Southampton, comments: «Setting a Minimum Unit Price for alcohol is an almost perfect alcohol policy because it targets cheap booze bought by very heavy drinkers and leaves moderate drinkers completely unaffected.

Crost said that all of the costs and benefits from policies designed to reduce alcohol consumption, such as the minimum legal drinking age or liquor taxes, need to be assessed.

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DUI rules operate under a zero - tolerance policy, therefore no is no minimum BAC for underage drinking and driving — any amount of alcohol detected in a blood or breath test will result in DUI charges.

He has recently been involved in matters raising a wide variety of EU law issues, including the implementation of the common agricultural policy; the compatibility with EU law of a residency requirement for entitlement to tuition fee support, a minimum price for alcohol, and plain - packaging for tobacco products; the designation of special areas of conservation under the Habitats Directive; and the compatibility of religious further education colleges with the Equal Treatment Directive.