RECENT press reports have suggests that shops and pubs would be forced to restrict how much alcohol they sell under proposals to introduce a national target for reducing Scotland’s harmful levels of drinking.
Gerry Braiden, reporting in The Herald, said that ahead of the preparation of a new blueprint on tackling the country’s relationship with drink, “ministers have signalled a readiness to consider a Scotland-wide target as part of a global campaign to reduce alcohol”.
According to the report, both Alcohol Focus Scotland and leading medical experts have been “promoting and supporting the idea in recent weeks, believing it can become the key focus for the new national liquor strategy”.
Under the plans there would be a requirement for supermarkets, pubs and restaurants to declare the volume of alcohol they sold, with such data crucial in quantifying how much was being bought, where and from whom.
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