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Thursday, 19 June, 2008
Health drive seeks to curb alcohol abuse
Efforts to tackle drinking, smoking and obesity are to be given high priority by the Swiss government over the next four years. President Pascal Couchepin announced yesterday that he hopes to reduce the number of young people who regularly get drunk by 10 percent and to cut back the number of older, regular drinkers by five percent by 2012. Statistics suggest that almost 300,000 people in Switzerland are alcoholics or at risk of becoming alcohol dependent. WRS’s Adam Beaumont spoke to Monique Helfer, spokeswoman for the Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Problems.
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