<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/010102b6-0d6f-4814-9a1e-7490492fe7c5/CDA7018C-7D20-4A99-AFFB-7058BA3DB821/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mental-emotionalhealth.com/end-happy-hour-increase-taxes-to-fight-alcohol-abuse/" href="http://www.mental-emotionalhealth.com/end-happy-hour-increase-taxes-to-fight-alcohol-abuse/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mental-emotionalhealth.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mental-emotionalhealth.com/end-happy-hour-increase-taxes-to-fight-alcohol-abuse/"><H2><STRONG><A title="Permanent Link to End Happy Hour & Increase Taxes to Fight Alcohol Abuse?" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.mental-emotionalhealth.com/end-happy-hour-increase-taxes-to-fight-alcohol-abuse/">End Happy Hour & Increase Taxes to Fight Alcohol Abuse?</A></STRONG></H2></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mental-emotionalhealth.com/end-happy-hour-increase-taxes-to-fight-alcohol-abuse/" href="http://www.mental-emotionalhealth.com/end-happy-hour-increase-taxes-to-fight-alcohol-abuse/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mental-emotionalhealth.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mental-emotionalhealth.com/end-happy-hour-increase-taxes-to-fight-alcohol-abuse/"><P class="MsoNormal"><A title="beer bottles: Jesse Therrien" href="http://www.mental-emotionalhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/bottles.jpg"><IMG width="144" height="216" align="left" alt="beer bottles: Jesse Therrien" src="http://www.mental-emotionalhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/bottles.jpg" /></A>Ending happy hours and increasing alcohol taxes is what the British Medical Association is lobbying for to fight alcohol abuse. Other suggestions were to stop selling alcohol earlier and to lower the blood alcohol level for driving.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mental-emotionalhealth.com/end-happy-hour-increase-taxes-to-fight-alcohol-abuse/"><P class="MsoNormal"><O _moz-userdefined=""></O><ST1 _moz-userdefined=""></ST1><ST1 _moz-userdefined="">“Britain</ST1> is among of the hardest drinking countries in <ST1 _moz-userdefined="">Europe</ST1>, and the country’s alcohol-related death rate almost doubled between 1991 and 2005 — from 6.9 to 12.9 per 100,000 people.” (<A href="http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/333/20789/683997.html"><ST1 _moz-userdefined=""></ST1><ST1 _moz-userdefined="">UK</ST1> Doctors Urge Higher Tax on Alcohol</A>)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mental-emotionalhealth.com/end-happy-hour-increase-taxes-to-fight-alcohol-abuse/"><P class="MsoNormal">I don’t know if they are really worse off because they have less homicides than <ST1 _moz-userdefined=""></ST1><ST1 _moz-userdefined="">America,</ST1> yet one suggestion was to look to <ST1 _moz-userdefined=""></ST1><ST1 _moz-userdefined="">America because of the higher drinking age</ST1>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mental-emotionalhealth.com/end-happy-hour-increase-taxes-to-fight-alcohol-abuse/"><P class="MsoNormal"><O _moz-userdefined=""></O>We ended happy hour in bars in <ST1 _moz-userdefined=""></ST1><ST1 _moz-userdefined="">Ontario</ST1>, <ST1 _moz-userdefined="">Canada</ST1> years ago but then they decided to stay opened a couple hours later so I imagine they’re selling more alcohol than they ever did.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CDA7018C-7D20-4A99-AFFB-7058BA3DB821/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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