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Archived Daily News - 1st June 2008
   
 
The future of tobacco control - consultation
This consultation (PDF) is the first step in developing a new national tobacco control strategy [DoH, UK]
 
London - Tube drinks party sparks mayhem
Thousands of people have marked the banning of alcohol on London transport with a party that ended with arrests, assaults and cancelled trainsThousands of people have marked the banning of alcohol on London transport with a party that ended with arrests, assaults and cancelled trains [BBC, UK]
 
Washington - Blotto Bye-Bye to Booze on the Tube
If you tell a British person not to do something, if you say no, we will do it even more," said Duffell, offering a drink to six passing police officers, who ignored him [Washington Post, USA]
 
Australia - Transport chaos as Londoners party on Tube before alcohol ban
The London transport system was heavily disrupted overnight as thousands of revellers held an unauthorised "drinks party" on underground trains before an alcohol ban went into effect [The Age, Australia]
 
Drink campaign targets parents
The government is hoping to highlight the problem of underage drinking with a series of measures targeted at young people and their parents [BBC, UK]
 
An irrational and stupid drug policy
The government's handling of drug policy is so ignorant and foolish it is a challenge to explain why in a newspaper column [Ottawa Citizen, Canada]
 
Presidential Designation of Foreign Narcotics Kingpins
This action underscores the President's determination to do everything possible to pursue drug traffickers, undermine their operations, and end the suffering that trade in illicit drugs inflicts on Americans and other people around the world, as well as prevent drug traffickers from supporting terrorists [The White House, USA]
 
Drug Foundation urges moratorium and independent analysis of new party pills
On the eve of the BZP party pill ban, the New Zealand Drug Foundation has called for a voluntary moratorium on sales of all new non-BZP party pills until an independent analysis has been carried out to determine their risk [New Zealand Drug Foundation]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

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