Reported by: Emon CRWE Newswire Middle East correspondent

The authorities in Moscow are preparing a ban on the sale of strong alcohol from late night 2 pm to morning at 10 am. The Ban is to address one of the city’s one million greatest scourges drinking.

According to Russian press reports, Moscow’s mayor, Yuri Lusjkov, signed a decree to take affect from the first of September prohibiting the sale of goods from 2 pm to 10 am.
It is intended to prevent the Muscovites from buying strong spirits such as vodka during the dark hours, but it will be possible to buy beer and wine.

The ban is an attempt to tackle one of Russia’s major problems, namely the ingestion of too much alcohol.

Russia earlier this summer implemented a zero tolerance ban on drinking and driving, passed by parliament after President Dmitry Medvedev said that Russians could not to be trusted when drinking.

Multinational corporations of drinks such as Carlsberg, SABMiller, Anheuser-Busch InBev and others controls more than 95 percent of the domestic market, one of the world’s largest.
Alcohol abuse costs an estimated half a million Russians their lives every year and alcohol has a major influence on Russian life expectancy.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Americans view alcohol and cigarettes as more dangerous than marijuana.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that just 17% of Adults rate use of marijuana as riskier than drinking alcohol. Fifty percent (50%) say alcohol is more dangerous, while 26% rate the two as equally risky.

These findings are consistent with a survey last August.

Even a majority of adults who drink alcohol rate it as more dangerous than marijuana. Those who never drink alcohol are more closely divided.

Similarly, 46% say smoking cigarettes is more dangerous than smoking pot. Twenty-four percent (24%) disagree and say marijuana use is more dangerous. One-in-four (25%) view the two as equally dangerous.

Twenty-six percent (26%) of adults say smoking cigarettes should be outlawed, while 42% think marijuana should remain an illegal drug.

Americans are evenly divided over whether marijuana should be legalized in the United States, but most expect legalization to happen within the next decade.

The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on July 21-22, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Men feel more strongly than women that both alcohol and cigarettes are more dangerous than marijuana. Adults across all age groups share that belief, although younger Americans believe it even more strongly.

When it comes to alcohol, twenty percent (20%) of Americans drink several times a week, including nine percent (9%) who drink every day or nearly every day. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say they never drink.

Forty percent (40%) of Adults say they have smoked marijuana at some point in their lives. Eleven percent (11%) say they’ve smoked it in the past year. Those ages 18 to 29 are much more likely to have smoked marijuana in the past year than their elders.

Men drink more heavily than women. Twice as many married adults say they drink every day than unmarried adults, but unmarrieds are more than twice as likely as marrieds to have smoked pot in the past year. Those who say they’ve smoked marijuana drink more than those who have not tried pot.
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Rasmussen Reports is an electronic media company specializing in the collection, publication and distribution of public opinion polling information. Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade.

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