UK Labour Goverment New Drinking Law From April 2010

It's an interesting story, though the headline is misleading: banning drinking contests and banning drinking, period, are two very different concepts.

"This drinking fun game is estimated to cause 30,000 deaths in the UK alone each year costing the tax payer 55 billion a year"This is absolute rubbish. I would love to see your sources and references for this blatantly untrue statement.The highest estimated alcohol related deaths that I can find any where is 15,000, and this takes in to account alcohol related deaths not only diseases directly caused by alcohol.www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2563443/Fifteen-thousand-people-die-from-alcohol-related-diseases-every-year.htmlAs for the cost of treating alcohol related problems the latest NHS numbers claim 2.7 billion a yearwww.nhsconfed.org/Publications/Documents/Briefing_193_Alcohol_costs_the_NHS.pdfWhen you then compare this with the total amount of tax revenue taken in per year from Alcohol in the UK for the last 3 years that has been 10 billion per year.www.the-tma.org.uk/tobacco-tax-revenue.aspx

It's an interesting story, though the headline is misleading.

"most addicts if they really want something bad enough they will always find a way..." That's exactly why this problem will never be solved. The parents are responsible, and as long that is not under control forget any remedy. In Spain many avenues have been tried to no avail. Nowadys people from the UK come for one weekend to Spain by the plane loads just to spend 48 hours of drinking, without sleep and be put back on the plane as a bunch drunkards if they aren't be admitted to a hospital before. The emergency departments at hospitals are overloaded during the weekends because of collapsed youngsters from the UK and Spain. This is such a severe disease even worse than the Mexican flue. Start with instructing the parents to become more responsible about their offspring that is the only basic remedy.

I found my figures on the internet. Under alchole related FACTS

I'm sure these alter daily as binge drinking isn,t just at weekend.

the main picture is of a youth who after a night binge drinking was arrested and made headline for using a heros poppy wreath to releave himself. The picture isn;t making it more dramatic than it is as i believe binge drinking, fighting, crime, and pee on a heros poppy wreath is sadly dramitic enough.

Well if you found them under FACTS then they clearly must be true. I will of course acknowledge that figures change depending on what statistical model and what criteria you analyse them by, but I have referenced the most up to date sources that I could find, with the exception of the telegraph source which was the highest possible number I could find. As all my references are based over the course of a year I doubt that they change significantly. Claiming alarming figures to emphasise your point is just lazy.

Llike many who write storys i'm sure like me they also all only use FACTS and no more.

http://www.patient.co.uk/health/Alcohol-and-Sensible-Drinking.htm

This link claim ''In the UK about 33,000 deaths a year are related to drinking alcohol, a quarter due to accidents.''

There fore saying im ''lazy'' which is uncalled for to justify your point is obviously not needed. As i said i'm sure we all look into facts not fiction to put our story/news across.

Thankyou for everyones comments and reading my factual story

I honestly dont understand why they dont put more time and effort into catching actual criminals than stopping young people having a good time. I can handle my drink and i know when iv had too much. Shouldnt it be at the discretion of the bar to refuse to serve people who they beleive have had too much..?

I've come across the 30,000 figure before in articles, the one I'm putting the link to says 28,000, but that figure doesn't include Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Take Heart

There's a lot of useful information on there if you want to start worrying about all things that can go wrong from what you do.

Never mind the drinkers in the pubs and clubs, OFF LICENSED shops/ supermarkets / Petrol stations etc should all be made to sell alcohol from behind a separate area from the main shopping, with a separate till/s. This would make it far easier to check ID's before sales. Secondly, no special offers/ discounts etc. Tesco's at the moment  sell bottled water at a higher price ( Litres) than Beers,Lagers and cider. If the Goverment want to stop binge drinking, stop the top up before the club/pub session.When a single spirit (25ml) was twice the price of a pint ( 1950'60' earlier 70's), there was very few binge drinkers, drunks yes, look at the increase in booze related NHS admissions!

Wow, this argument would be a whole lot more convincing if you could spell.

How STUPID! the more you tell someone not to do somethink it is a well known fact they will do it just to piss you off!!! haha from a " Binge Drinker " i will make it my duty to get absloutly drunk and use the " NHS " every friday night! Might aswell get my moneys worth Cheaper than a hotel lol!

This topic is very interesting. In the end of the arguement i can see good in this decision. However.... Maybe this is an excuse to get more money for taxes. The government know you can not stop binge drinking. Or is this country really that thick?

Our government is far from thick. Why are they only now making this decision to tackle binge drinking? How long have the uk's youth been binge drinking?
Also why only recently they decide to ban smoking in public places? This should have been done a very long time ago. We have been aware of the health risks for both alcohol and cigarettes for many many years.

Answer in one word... TAX!

This is bulshit the government wants more money off the tax payer so lets put more tax on beer it not going to help anyone just makes having a drink more exspensive!

What a crap reportTry spellchecker next time.

Wow what a shit comment box apparently return doesn't work.