Category: News
Date: 08.09.2004
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Twenty-three
per cent of respondents to a nationwide Â鶹Éç News poll believe the legal
age to purchase alcohol should be raised to 21, or above.
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The Â鶹Éç's Healthy Britain survey questioned more than
one thousand people on a number of alcohol related issues, including
safer drinking campaigns and the banning of drink promotions.
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Over a third (38%) of those polled support the increase
of taxes on alcohol to discourage excessive drinking.
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Sixty-one per cent were opposed to the idea. Higher
taxes were opposed by 68% of male respondents and 54% of female respondents.
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Fifteen per cent of the survey group would support moves
to discourage excessiveness by making alcohol an illegal drug.
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Eighty-four per cent were against the notion. A quarter
(25%) of respondents in social class D/E backed the idea of making alcohol
illegal, as opposed to nine per cent of social class A/B.
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More than three-quarters (77%) of those surveyed agreed
that parents who consistently allowed their children to drink excessively
should ultimately face prosecution. Twenty-two per cent of respondents
disagreed with the idea.
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Just over half of respondents (51%) support the idea
of the banning of drinks promotions, including 'two-for-one' and pound-a-pint
offers.
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Forty-eight per cent (of all respondents) said they
wouldn't support such a ban, but 56% of women said they would be supportive.
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Eighty-seven per cent of the poll supported Government
provision for more funds to enforce the minimum age at which people
can purchase alcohol, and 78% supported greater governmental spend on
safe drinking campaigns and services to tackle excessive drinking.
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Notes to Editors
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The Â鶹Éç's Healthy Britain survey should be credited
if any of the above findings are used.
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The poll was conducted for the Â鶹Éç by ICM, who carried
out a nationwide survey by phone of 1,010 adults between the 20 and
22 August.
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