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Default Europe to crack down on 'passive drinking', says leaked report
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> In uk.legal Jasbird > wrote:
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>>Europe to crack down on ?passive drinking?, says leaked report
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>>Our reporter in Brussels reveals that EC officials are plotting to make
>>drinking as socially unacceptable as smoking.
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> Fat chance. Especially in countries such as France and Spain where wine
> on the table is the norm of most meals.
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> Axel
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Many studies have shown that moderate drinking increases life span and
reduces risk of coronaries. So it doesn't make that much sense to stop
something that is healthy, even for a European bureaucrat.

john2

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