As incidents of drunk driving get steadily worse in South Africa, there is hope that the new motorist demerit system which is on its way will help convince people to kick the habit – but more needs to be done, socially, to make perpetrators feel bad about doing it in the first place.
NAKURU, KENYA: Manufacturers of alcoholic drinks want the national government to do more in weeding out counterfeit products.
Scotland's poorest people suffer most from having easy access to alcohol in their area, a new study has suggested.
One of Australia’s biggest retailers has threatened to shelve $85 million of investment in new liquor stores in WA if the State Government’s alcohol reforms are introduced.
The subject of alcohol and cancer risk is particularly charged, because of the fear that the disease still evokes and the strong emotions it arouses.
The Department of Health and Social Care has opened up a public consultation on the descriptors used to refer to low alcohol products so that people can make “informed choices” following the recent growth of the sector.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The draft liquor policy for 2018-19 okayed by the Cabinet on Wednesday has as its major highlights the sale of Foreign Made Foreign Liquor (FMFL) in the state and the phasing out of plastic liquor bottles.
That it’s only 2 p.m. is of little concern to Abdullah and his buddies in Istanbul’s Okmeydani district. Inside his corner store, plastic cups filled with beer and spirits are dotted along countertops and atop refrigerators stocked with beer and spirits.
Quebec announced its banning high-sugar drinks with high alcohol content from all grocery and convenience stores, following the death of a 14-year-old who consumed one of the high-energy, alcoholic beverages.
A Suffolk brewery boss has slammed proposals to create new labelling for drink with 0.5% alcohol or less as “misleading, harmful and dangerous”.