Several associations and individuals, right and left, Nicolas Sarkozy speak in an open letter on the importance of maintaining the ban on alcohol advertising on the internet ban challenged in the law on health being Discussion in the Senate.
8 members are PS and UMP, and medical oncologists (Philippe Batel, Yves BUR, Claude Evin, Claude Got, Jean-Marie LE GUEN, NORDMANN Roger, Anne-Marie Payet, Mauritius TUBIANA) and 14 associations (including the Mutuelle des étudiants League against Road Violence, National League against Cancer, French Society of Public Health, National Union of Family Associations, National Association of Alcoholism prevention and addiction, etc..) formally requesting the President of the Republic, his ministers and Members maintain the ban on Internet advertising. They argue in an open letter that "a major risk to open the advertising of alcohol at this powerful and ubiquitous medium for young people in the Internet".
This letter responds to the vote last March in the National Assembly the draft law "Hospitals, patients, health and territories", the text currently under consideration in the Senate in an emergency procedure, including the lifting of the ban. This may indeed seem absurd when the same text in the prohibition of sale of alcohol (and tobacco) to less than 18 years was decided. While the sites for the youth and those devoted to sport and physical activity were excluded from this permission, but, as the signatories, it "is no barriers on the Internet and young people, virtuoso surf the Web, largely s'affranchissant sites that are supposedly dedicated. "
"Improving on Internet opportunities for promotion of alcohol at a time when alcohol and drunkenness exploding among young people is a major risk to society" as the authors argue, reflected "each in its singularity of player movement exposed to the ravages of alcohol. " They also place emphasis on the common sense of citizens according to the IFOP / Anpa / National League against Cancer, "8 out of 10 French are opposed to alcohol advertising on the Internet."
They are asking to Nicolas Sarkozy and the government to "promote health", "a choice of company that will engage the responsibility of public authorities (...) for many years." This open letter also asks to ban and not part of the sale of alcohol in service stations.
This appeal will be heard by the Senate and the Minister of Health?
8 members are PS and UMP, and medical oncologists (Philippe Batel, Yves BUR, Claude Evin, Claude Got, Jean-Marie LE GUEN, NORDMANN Roger, Anne-Marie Payet, Mauritius TUBIANA) and 14 associations (including the Mutuelle des étudiants League against Road Violence, National League against Cancer, French Society of Public Health, National Union of Family Associations, National Association of Alcoholism prevention and addiction, etc..) formally requesting the President of the Republic, his ministers and Members maintain the ban on Internet advertising. They argue in an open letter that "a major risk to open the advertising of alcohol at this powerful and ubiquitous medium for young people in the Internet".
This letter responds to the vote last March in the National Assembly the draft law "Hospitals, patients, health and territories", the text currently under consideration in the Senate in an emergency procedure, including the lifting of the ban. This may indeed seem absurd when the same text in the prohibition of sale of alcohol (and tobacco) to less than 18 years was decided. While the sites for the youth and those devoted to sport and physical activity were excluded from this permission, but, as the signatories, it "is no barriers on the Internet and young people, virtuoso surf the Web, largely s'affranchissant sites that are supposedly dedicated. "
"Improving on Internet opportunities for promotion of alcohol at a time when alcohol and drunkenness exploding among young people is a major risk to society" as the authors argue, reflected "each in its singularity of player movement exposed to the ravages of alcohol. " They also place emphasis on the common sense of citizens according to the IFOP / Anpa / National League against Cancer, "8 out of 10 French are opposed to alcohol advertising on the Internet."
They are asking to Nicolas Sarkozy and the government to "promote health", "a choice of company that will engage the responsibility of public authorities (...) for many years." This open letter also asks to ban and not part of the sale of alcohol in service stations.
This appeal will be heard by the Senate and the Minister of Health?
