New Laws to Ban Happy Hours and Drinking Games
Happy hours, drinking games and all-you-can-drink deals will be banned. According to The Daily Telegraph, plans will be announced in 10 days time.
Alcohol abuse costs £25billion annually, with the cost of £2.7 billion a year to the NHS. The annoucement by ministers will coincide with the beginning of Christmas party season. During this time, police force and hospitals are under heavy burden to cope with the sharp increase in alcohol related offences.
Health minister, Dawn Primarolo, said earlier this year that the drinks industry had failed to curb binge drinking voluntarily, so regulations must be enforced.
Don Shenker, Chief exec of Alcohol Concern, said: “If introduced, these measures will not go far enough to tackle binge drinking. Some of the biggest culprits in fuelling binge drinking and anti-social behaviour are supermarkets and off-licenses who sell alcohol very cheaply.
“The biggest rises in affordability of alcohol have come from the off-trade, so the Government needs to crack down on this too or the practice of pre-loading on cheap bought-in booze before hitting the town will continue.”
What do you think? Will banning happy hours really curb binge drinking culture?
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