Government launches alcohol abuse ads - The Guardian 19th May 2008

Monday, May 19, 2008

The Department of Health is launching the first stage of a £10m drive to tackle binge drinking with a TV campaign about the units of alcohol in different drinks. Different TV ads in the campaign, which break tonight, will target male and female drinkers. The public health minister, Dawn Primarolo, said that the "Know Your Limits" campaign was the biggest awareness drive the DoH has launched to date.

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

The government has take a best way to notice the people how much they are dealing with alcohol.when they are living with a tension they have to use more alcohol.so government should try not only from ads ,but reducing there tensions also.

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Thushara.

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