A BAN on alcohol sales within 500 metres of schools would mean that virtually every bar and club in Phuket City would have to close, a meeting of people with connections to venues was told today.
The meeting was called at the Royal Phuket City hotel following government moves to enact laws that would treat alcohol in a similar fashion to cigarettes, with graphic photographs on bottle labels illustrating some of the more serious health consequences.
Text warnings would highlight the danger of liver damage, mixing driving and drinking, and other negative consequences of imbibing alcohol.
A ban would prevent people from consuming alcohol at bus stops and within 500 metres of educational facilities.
Lawyer Palangsit Sutuchpreeyasri warned the gathering of about 50 representatives from venues of different kinds that enacting the proposed law would mean virtually every bar and club in Phuket City would have to shut because of the number of educational facilities throughout the island's capital.
The meeting was purely a briefing session and no course of action was determined.
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Text warnings would highlight the danger of liver damage, mixing driving and drinking, and other negative consequences of imbibing alcohol.
A ban would prevent people from consuming alcohol at bus stops and within 500 metres of educational facilities.
Lawyer Palangsit Sutuchpreeyasri warned the gathering of about 50 representatives from venues of different kinds that enacting the proposed law would mean virtually every bar and club in Phuket City would have to shut because of the number of educational facilities throughout the island's capital.
The meeting was purely a briefing session and no course of action was determined.
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Posted by ssresident on January 18, 2011 18:20