Australian Green Senator Rachel Siewart has called for the government to do more than just put taxes on "Alcopops" to tackle alcohol problems in Australia. Presently, alcohol causes over 3000 deaths a year, 70,000 hospital admissions, a third of road...
Dutch scientists have confirmed that red wine is healthier than an alcopop. A binge drinking experiment showed those who hit the bottle might do better to choose Cotes du Rhone over cocktails.
Twenty healthy volunteers drank six glasses of red wine or six glasses of Bacardi Breezer in three hours. Blood samples were taken after 90 [...]
Australian officials unexpectedly hiked the tax on pre-mixed alcoholic drinks on Sunday, as new research revealed that teenage girls were consuming them at unprecedented levels. Health Minister Nicola Roxon said the tax on the so-called...
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Today at 12:30pm the Budget was announced.Cigarettes are going up by 11p-so more of a reason to quit for smokers. Beer is going up, as is wine, and, sadly, cider.However, alcopops aren't.Why drinks preferred by (mostly) sensible drinkers in pubs are going up and alcopops consumed by angry fourteen year olds are not, I have no idea.Shame that supermarket booze can't have its own tax-having seen teenagers stand across the road from Kenton Sainsburys with a trolley necking beer it seems that this suply route for underage drinking needs closing.Good to see new bands of duty for low-emitting cars In some areas, Alistair Darling seems a little coy.The chancellor said he might change the law to force utility companies to give a "fairer deal" to the five million customers who use pre-payment meter
Alcopops. Malternatives. Coolers. Whatever you call them, they are likely to get more expensive and be harder to find in California during 2007.
The California Board of Equalization, acting on a petition submitted by a group called California Friday Night Live (CFNL) that is said to be made up of teenage members, will look at plans to tax products like Smirnoff Ice and Bacardi Silver as liquor and have them removed from grocery and convenience store shelves.
The result would be that malternatives would increase in price by $2 a six pack and only be available in liquor stores. Right now about 24,000 stores with beer and wine sales licenses can legally sell malternatives. CFNL says this move would help cut teen drinking because the sweet-tasting products are favorites among female underage drinkers.
The California Board of Equalization estimates that by reclassifying malternatives from beer to distilled spirits state tax collections will swell by $40 million a year. California would j
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