What’s the Alternative?

Because the American system of alcohol regulation is built on local control within a licensed system, American consumers have not suffered the effects of counterfeit alcohol, public health problems and escalations in crime that other countries around the world are experiencing. Unlike the United States, other countries are making headlines for unregulated and unsafe alcohol. Here are just a few:

United Kingdom

• Dangerous Fake Vodka Circulating in Sussex

• Alcohol Hospital Admissions Double in a Decade

• Twelve year olds drinking equivalent 19 glasses of wine a week

• Alcohol-Related Hospital Admissions Up by Almost 900 a Day

• Alcohol-Related Hospital Admissions Reach Record Level

• Child, 3, treated for alcoholism at British hospital

• How Bootleg Booze is Poisoning Britain

• Fake ‘vodka’ factory found after warehouse fire

• Booze puts one Briton in hospital every 7 minutes as NHS sees 54% leap in alcohol admissions over past decade

• Wine at 99p a bottle is ‘a gift to alcoholics’

• Anti-binge drinking policies are ‘too feeble’

• Children as young as 11 drinking nine pints a week

• Coroner criticises supermarket cheap alcohol after fatal ‘£10′ Binge

• Alcohol-related deaths in Britain rising fast

• We treat alcohol like fruit juice now ..this has to stop

• Drink linked to Scottish crime problems

• Assaults on police officers increase by 600 in a year

Mexico

• Mexican microbrewers struggle to get ahead
• Mexican microbrewers fight for space at bar
• Mexico to curb “toxic” tequila

Germany

• Teen alcohol poisoning in Germany doubled

Italy

• Italian children’s binge drinking blamed on Britain

• Italy battles youth drinking problem

• Pressures mount as binge-drinking hits Italy

Australia

• Abuse of alcohol an epidemic, PM warns

• Drink bans introduced to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence

• Australia Arrests 1,600 Boozed Up Idiots

Ecuador

• Adulterated alcohol leaves at least 21 dead

  Russia

  

• Researchers blame Russian drinking on $3 vodka

• Report: Alcohol Responsible for 50 Percent of Russian Deaths

• Russia’s president calls time on vodka “disaster”

• Why Russia finally decided that beer is alcohol

Turkey

• Turkey arrests after adulterated alcohol kills Russians

Czech Republic

• Battling bootleggers: Legal alcohol producers must share the burden of combating illicit liquor

India

• Spurious liquor takes 8 lives

• Hooch toll rises to 29 in Uttar Pradesh

Cambodia

• Tainted wine kills 14 people at Cambodian ceremony

Uganda

• Fake Liquor Kills at Least 16 People in Uganda

• The Battle to Stop Drink from Destroying Uganda

China

• Raid Finds Fake Booze as Pervasive as Ever

• China awash with counterfeit vintage wine

• Counterfeit Wine Producers Arrested in North China

Kenya

• Seven die after consuming illegal brew in Ruiru