Summary: Norway health people say that binge drinking has become increasingly higher and they want to stop it. They try to stop it by raising the taxes on alcoholic drinks and make tighter marketing regulations. The reason they have decided to do this is because they realized that drinking leads to accidents, health and mental problems, and death. They estimated that drinking caused around 2.5 million deaths a year. This article also talks about self-regulations.
My Thoughts: I think that they are smart to do this but i'm wondering why they're doing it so late. OBVIOUSLY alcohol causes death, people could've told you that 10 years ago. It's smart to make the taxes higher though because the economy is bad so no one wants to buy anything. But, the alcohol companies with eventually lower their prices or make deals(see picture above) and people will start buying alcohol more. There will still be many many deaths in Norway caused by alcohol but regulations and higher taxes will make the death rate decrease some.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE64J0LN20100520
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