The Chancellor has announced in the 2010 budget that duty on cider would increase by 10%. It was said the rise was to address 'a long-standing anomaly which has meant cider has been under-taxed in comparison to other alcoholic drinks.' It was also announced that the definition of cider will be changed in September 'to ensure specific strong ciders are taxed more appropriately'. However the duty rise has prompted criticism and debate with particular dissatisfaction reported amongst the real cider industry.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Tagged absorb-the-rise, address-problem, alcohol industry, alcohol pricing, alcoholic, backed-the-rise, country, david-cameron, guardian, networking-site, rise, white, white-lightning
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Abstract: Background: Excessive alcohol consumption, particularly among young males, is an important global health problem, in part because of the increased risks of intentional and non-intentional injuries, uses of illicit drug, crime, and psychiatric disorders. There are no data available to evaluate the extent to which interventions are effective in reducing hazardous/harmful alcohol consumption among young males in Thailand
Abstract: Background: All public services in the UK are expected to produce evidence-based policies. This principle was argued particularly strongly in relation to policies for tackling drug misuse. However, concerns have been expressed that commitment to this principle is not matched by the reality of policy making
With overdoses and deaths involving the use of prescription drugs skyrocketing in the United States, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has selected the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University to host a new initiative to reduce diversion and abuse of these drugs: the PMP Center of Excellence…
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Tagged brandeis, brandeis-university, department, heller, heller-school, involving-the-use, new-initiative, selected-the-heller, social, social-policy, the-use, these-drugs, united, united-states
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More than a quarter of youth aged 12-20 (27.6 percent) drank alcohol in the past month, according to a survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The study shows that the underage drinking rates were as high as 40 percent in some states such as North Dakota and Vermont…
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Tagged 27-6-percent, north, past, rates-were, services, study-shows, substance, substance-abuse, such-as-north, underage, youth-aged
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“We have talked here a lot about smokeless tobacco, and for years we basically meant that to be synonymous with Swedish-style snus,” says ACSH’s Dr.
Filed in tobacco
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Tagged basically-meant, characteristic, down-the-drain, fuller-spectrum, less-harmful, looking-at-now, nicotine, over-the-course, products, swedish-style, these-obstacles, tobacco, user
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.-During board meetings, Reynolds American Inc. Chief Executive Susan Ivey likes to suck on dissolvable smokeless-tobacco strips to get her nicotine fix
Filed in tobacco
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Tagged addiction, campaign, chief-executive, dissolvable, food, incentive, inexorable, items-represent, matthew-myers, public-health, scott-ballin, their-addiction, tobacco
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Background: Reports from Thailand suggest that a growing number of people who inject drugs (IDU) are now injecting midazolam, a legal benzodiazepine with potent amnestic and ventilatory depressant effects.
The Center for Medicare Advocacy is troubled by the Senate Special Committee on Aging’s March 24 hearing, “The War on Drugs Meets the War on Pain: Nursing Home Residents Caught in the Crossfire.” The Center’s Senior Policy Attorney Toby S…
The Center for Medicare Advocacy is troubled by the Senate Special Committee on Aging’s March 24 hearing, “The War on Drugs Meets the War on Pain: Nursing Home Residents Caught in the Crossfire.” The Center’s Senior Policy Attorney Toby S…