Youth panel calls for booze ad ban

Mar 15 2010

A youth panel is to call on the Government to ban alcohol advertisements from public places in a bid to "change Scotland's culture of alcohol misuse".

Scotland's first Youth Commission on Alcohol will make the recommendations to Public Health Minister Shona Robison after a year-long investigation into alcohol abuse.

Representatives will also recommend increasing alcohol education within the school curriculum, carrying out more research into the impact of passive drinking and providing leisure activities for children that don't involve drinking.