Friday, February 22, 2008

Manto: Promoting a healthy lifestyle not hypocritical

She said she believed that the proposed health-warning labels on alcohol products would reduce alcohol abuse and dependence.

Within the next year alcoholic beverages would carry health messages "highlighting the negative effects of alcohol consumption".

Asked if she would consider an outright ban on alcohol to eliminate alcohol abuse instead of simply increasing prices, she said such a ban was against the Constitution.

"You have the right to kill yourself if you want to," she said...

A reduction in alcohol consumption, she said, would also lead to a reduction in violence and road accidents.

- M&G

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