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Ministers have told the drinks industry to act more responsibly or face new laws governing alcohol sales.
A review of retailers showed many were not following a voluntary code calling on them to display details on units and to encourage sensible drinking.
Ministers have responded by launching a consultation on proposed laws covering happy hours, promotion and labelling.
Fine, fine. Although can the government please actually enforce some of the existing laws first, like the ones about not serving drunks? I have never, ever seen someone refused for being pissed.
More irritatingly, though:
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It comes as figures for England suggest the scale of alcohol-related hospital admissions is much higher than thought.
Oooh - well, that's a bit scary if so.
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NHS Information Centre data had suggested the figure for hospital admissions was just over 200,000 last year.
That still seems quite a few, though, if those are admissions for medical conditions directly caused by alcohol consumption.
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But this only covered illness caused directly by alcohol such as liver disease.
Well, so it should, surely?
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Department of Health figures for England showed that when deaths from cancer, heart disease and strokes were taken into account the total topped 800,000 last year.
What the fudge? We're now blaming alcohol for deaths resulting from diseases which
might conceivably in
some cases be
partially contributed to by alcohol? Or where only a "safe" level of alcohol has been taken by the dead person? Or in which alcohol may have played no effect whatsoever? Or where the dead person might not even have drunk at all? And we're using those deaths as an example of how binge drinking and excessive alcohol consumption is bad, m'kay?
Good chutney-ferreting
lord.
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The figure represents a doubling of the numbers in the past four years, leaving the cost to the NHS standing at £2.7bn.
Well, yes, if we add in every death caused by every other thing in the universe which might in some cases have alcohol as a causative factor I'm sure we can get that number to 100% of all deaths in the UK. Hell, some people who commit suicide do it when drunk, so we should add every single one of those in too, eh? And
everyone who dies from an accident, because some accidents are caused by alcohol.
STUPID STUPID FUCKERS.
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Doctors said drinking levels were now a major health concern.
Says one of the booziest of the professions. Fuck
off.