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The Swiss Addiction Foundation is reviving a well-known demand: alcohol should not be allowed to be sold in shops at night. Sucht Schweiz refers to the cantons of Geneva and Vaud as justification.
In these two cantons, hospital admissions due to alcohol poisoning have fallen by up to 30 percent since the introduction of the ban on selling alcohol at night. This is what the foundation writes in its “Swiss Addiction Panorama 2023” report published on Tuesday.
In particular, fewer younger people would have had to be hospitalized because of this, writes Sucht Schweiz in the report that the foundation publishes every year. The foundation continues to demand generally higher prices for alcohol and better protection of minors, including during the day.
When it comes to tobacco, Addiction Switzerland is demanding, among other things, that so-called “puff bars” be made more expensive to protect young people. These electronic cigarettes spread among young people.
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