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Alcohol consumption will kill 210,000 in next 20 years: Experts
Monday February 20, 2012 08:20:04 PM, Arun
Kumar,
IANS
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London: Alcohol will
cause 210,000 deaths during the next 20 years through illness,
violence and accidents, British doctors have warned.
Two of Britain's foremost alcohol specialists, Ian Gilmore and
Nick Sheron, are calling on the government to act quickly to avert
this "shameful, preventable loss of life" by outlawing cheap
alcohol, Daily Mail reported Monday.
In a BBC Panorama programme Monday, liver specialist Sheron says
that liver disease is now the only major cause of death continuing
to rise.
They have calculated that in the next two decades there will be
70,000 avoidable deaths from liver disease and another 140,000
from drink-related strokes, heart attacks, cancer, violence,
suicides and accidents.
Ministers had hoped that introducing 24-hour drinking laws in 2005
would stop revellers binge-drinking in the run-up to closing time.
But police say that round-the-clock opening, in combination with
supermarkets selling some alcohol cheaper than water, has left
town centres resembling the Wild West.
Health service figures show there were 1.2 million hospital
admissions related to alcohol last year, which has doubled in just
eight years.
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