Reducing Australia's per-capita alcohol consumption by just one litre a year would drive a significant reduction in head, neck and liver cancer deaths.
TROUBLE IS BREWING in Leinster House with the government's announcement this week that it prioritising the controversial Public Health Alcohol Bill.
WA Health Minister Roger Cook has flagged the idea of a minimum floor price for alcohol to stop retailers selling bargain-basement grog to binge and hardened drinkers.
Facebook is testing a tool that lets people hide advertisements for alcohol.
The Zimbabwean government is planning to enact a law barring the sale of alcohol from Monday to Friday, some hours of the day and to expectant women, in order to curb abuse.
The new decree clearly says that sales of liquors without permits is illegal.
Full-strength beer will be outlawed at bottle shops in every town across the hard-drinking West Australian Pilbara as part of a plan to try to end generations of child neglect and abuse in the frontier town of Roebourne.
Debra Selkirk's chances did not look good. Without a lawyer, without any legal training, she decided to take on the Ontario government in a constitutional fight over a difficult cause — whether patients should be denied desperately needed liver transplants because of their drinking.
Speaking to the Athens News Agency, the Greek minister stressed that the amendment will be submitted for a vote before the end of the year.
New legislation is aimed at both "de-normalising" the sale of alcohol and reducing impulse buying, which accounts for almost one-third of alcohol purchases, according to the vice-chairman of the association representing public health staff.