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DOCTORS VOTE FOR ALCOHOL ADVERTISING BAN

Published:  23 July, 2008

Doctors attending the British Medical Association's recent annual meeting in Torquay voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution calling for the Government to ban the advertising of alcoholic drinks. Motion 427 on Wednesday 2 July was proposed by Leigh Bisset, a medical student at East Anglia University, on behalf of the medical students' conference. The motion read: This meeting believes that because of the damaging effect alcohol has on the health of our society and the rising levels of binge drinking among the young the Government should legislate a ban on the advertising of alcohol, as it has for cigarettes.'

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