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WHO Should Regulate Alcohol Consumption With Legally Binding Convention, Global Health Expert Says
The "WHO should regulate alcohol at the global level, enforcing such regulations as a minimum drinking age, zero-tolerance drunken driving, and bans on unlimited drink specials," Devi Sridhar, a lecturer in global health politics at the University of Oxford, argues in a commentary published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, Scientific American reports. "[A]lcohol kills more than 2.5 million people annually, more than AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis," and it is a leading health concern for middle-income populations, "greater than obesity, inactivity and even tobacco," according to the news service (Wanjek, 2/15).
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