Ban all alcohol advertising, says top doctor
Telegraph.co.uk, UK - 12 hours ago
By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent, and Matthew Moore. A blanket ban on alcohol advertising is the only way to combat the British binge drinking ...
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Alcohol-linked deaths double in 15 years
ic Wales, UK - Feb 22, 2007
ALCOHOL-RELATED deaths in the UK have doubled in the past 15 years, according to official figures today. Some 8221 people in Britain literally died for a ...
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Alcohol deaths 'twice as likely'
ic WestLothian.co.uk, UK - Feb 22, 2007
Scots are twice as likely to die from alcohol-related deaths as drinkers in the UK as a whole, official figures have revealed. ...
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Number of drink deaths doubles in 13 years
Telegraph.co.uk, UK - Feb 22, 2007
By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent. Britain is in the grip of an alcohol crisis, according to official figures which show the number of people ...
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 | Drink 'kills twice as many Scots'
BBC News, UK - Feb 22, 2007
Men and women in Scotland are twice as likely to die an alcohol-related death as people in the UK as a whole, according to new research. ...
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City has highest rate of booze deaths in UK
Glasgow Evening Times, UK - 17 hours ago
by John McCann. GLASGOW has more men and women dying from booze than anywhere else in the UK. New figures show in the years from 1998 to 2004 drink was ...
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DYING FOR A DRINK?
Mirror.co.uk, UK - 19 hours ago
By Emily Cook Health Correspondent Emily.Cook@Mirror.Co.Uk 23/02/2007. According to the Office for National Statistics, 8221 died from alcohol abuse in 2004 ...
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BOOZY SCOTS DYING AT THE DOUBLE
Glasgow Daily Record, UK - 21 hours ago
By Natalie Walker. BOOZE kills twice as many Scots than people living in any other part of the UK, figures have revealed. Every six hours someone here dies ...
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Our fatal love affair with alcohol
The Herald, UK - Feb 22, 2007
FOR more than a year, Scotland has been bombarded with bad news about its love affair with drink. Every fresh bulletin has brought more shocking statistics: ...
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Reeling from alcohol
The Herald, UK - Feb 22, 2007
On average, one person in Scotland dies every three hours and 40 minutes as the direct result of alcohol abuse and the figure is rising rapidly. ...
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Scotland’s shame in the top 20 of drink deaths
Scotland Courier, UK - Feb 22, 2007
By Steve Bargeton, political editor. FIFTEEN OF the top 20 of the UK’s worst areas for alcohol- related deaths are in Scotland, according to shocking ...
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 | Alcohol related deaths up
Metro, UK - Feb 22, 2007
The biggest rise is among men aged between 35 and 54, for whom death rates have more than doubled. Experts are blaming the rise – from 13.4 per 100000 in ...
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