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Alcohol Review (basic) - Issue 56, April 8th

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This week: Kenya considers alcohol ad tax; UK electronic tag scheme extended; “Tax alcohol more”, says Ghanaian distiller; Puzzlement over Uber’s $1.1bn delivery venture; Prenatal alcohol alters brain structure, says study
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The Kenyan parliament building in Nairobi, bottom centre.
The Kenyan parliament building in Nairobi, bottom centre.
Kenya considers alcohol ad tax
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani this week proposed the introduction of a 15% excise duty on alcohol, gaming, and gambling advertisements.
“These habits are extremely addictive and can result in a variety of harmful repercussions, especially for the youth,” local media quote Yatani as saying. 
The new tax, he said, would “discourage” the promotion of these habits while helping to raise an extra 50bn shillings ($440m).
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UK alcohol tags extended
The justice department for England and Wales has said it will extend its alcohol monitoring tag scheme to 2025.
A fifth of offenders released from prison on probation have an “alcohol problem”, said the ministry.
A trial scheme rolled out last year saw 92% of its 3,121 tagged offenders staying sober.
Tagging will continue at a similar rate from this summer.
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Puzzlement over Uber's Drizly venture
Puzzlement over Uber's Drizly venture
There is puzzlement over why Uber paid $1.1bn for US drinks delivery service Drizly in October when US law currently prevents it from using Uber cars to make deliveries. The Boston Globe found an insider speculating that Uber may not have understood the “three-tier system” requiring that alcohol be sold from producers to distributors to retailers before reaching consumers. Nevertheless, Uber says the integration is “on track”.
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"Tax alcohol more", says Ghanaian distiller
“"We should tax alcohol more. We should tax the ‘sin industries’ more, so that we use that to help the needy,“ Maxwell Kofi Jumah, Managing Director of GIHOC Distilleries, told Ghana’s JoyNews in an interview.
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