Gov’t urged to hasten work on alcohol law
Thu, 10 December 2015 ppp
Pech Sotheary
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| Students drink beer during dinner at a house in the Kingdom’s capital. Sovan Philong |
Alcohol experts and victims of excessive drinking came together yesterday to urge the government to speedily adopt a law controlling the consumption and sale of booze that was first drafted in 2008.
The plea was made at the launch of Young People and Alcohol, a World Health Organization report detailing the impact of the free availability of drink on youngsters.
More than 11 per cent of those aged between 8 and 17 consume alcohol, a figure which leapt to 82 per cent for those aged 18 to 32, according to executive director of the Cambodia Movement for Health Mom Kong. He added that 96 per cent of Cambodians favoured restrictions on the product.
Yel Daravuth, of the WHO, said that alcohol is the fifth-biggest cause of disease and fatal accidents in Cambodia, and seriously damages the development of youths who use it.
There are currently no restrictions on the sale or purchase of booze in Cambodia. Ministry of Education official Kim Sethany said the alcohol law had been forwarded to the Council of Ministers for approval before going to the National Assembly.
“Once the draft is officially passed into law, restrictions will come into place on advertising, distribution and the age of alcohol consumers,” she said, adding that the government planned to raise taxes on alcohol and tobacco in 2016.
Council spokesman Phay Siphan said yesterday that he didn’t know when the body would approve the draft.
1 comment:
If happy to drink alcohol and you become a drunken people you will lose everything even school,job,you love one and you become a drunken people than you will disable to do of what you want ,alcohol never good for you if you can't control yourself most cambodian just like this, I have a lot friends alcoholism in the past but still better than today,because in the past most people parents if you get addiction of anything they won't you get marry with their daughter and the girl don't like either,we drink but sometime occasional and limit,our nation need young this generation so bad to help our nation to get of deep corruption from destroying our country by the old bad men today hold power sold our country to enemy ,get up prepare yourselves to be a good one for our own nation and crackdown all master mind who slave neighbor. thank
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