The Irish Society of Gastroenterology has called on the Government to introduce a 1 per cent levy on alcohol advertising and sponsorship expenditure.
The society is taking part in an all-island gastroenterology conference in Belfast where British and Irish Governments have also been urgent to take action against cheap drink.
It said the money raised from the levy could be used to fund an Institute of Alcohol Studies, which could conduct research into alcohol harm reduction.
“Currently there is no funding dedicated to improving treatment of serious alcohol-related diseases,” the society’s president Prof Aideen McCormick said. “We feel it appropriate that the industry which profits from alcohol consumption should fund research into harm reduction.”
Source: Dan Griffin, Irish Times, 12/04/13
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