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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Drink prices must rise to cut alcohol deaths, doctors advise

By Lucy Cockcroft
09 Oct 2008

The price of alcohol must be increased and beer, wine and spirits companies should be banned from advertising, doctors have advised.

They believe Government and industry measures to tackle binge drinking are failing, and that more needs to be done to reduce the toll of alcohol-related deaths.

More people die annually from alcohol-related causes than from breast cancer, cervical cancer and MRSA infection combined.

The deaths of around one in four young men and 10 per cent of young women in Europe are alcohol-related.

Doctors writing in the British Medical Journal publication Gut say that tough measures such as increasing the cost of alcohol, banning advertising and reducing its availability will work.

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