{"id":85228,"date":"2026-05-11T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/german-doctors-call-for-spirits-to-be-sold-only-in-specialist-shops\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:52:00","slug":"german-doctors-call-for-spirits-to-be-sold-only-in-specialist-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=85228","title":{"rendered":"German doctors call for spirits to be sold only in specialist shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-31053\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Germany\u2019s Marburger Bund medical doctors\u2019 association called on Sunday for the sale of alcoholic spirits to be confined to specially licensed outlets.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Germany\u2019s Marburger Bund medical doctors\u2019 association called on Sunday for the sale of alcoholic spirits to be confined to specially licensed outlets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sale of drinks with a high alcohol percentage should take place only in licensed specialist sales points,\u201d the association said during its annual meeting in Hanover.<\/p>\n<p>Supermarkets, filling stations and kiosks should no longer be allowed to sell strong drink, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The association justified its calls by noting that the consumption of alcohol represented one of the largest avoidable health risks in Germany. Young people needed better protection, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Consumption patterns established at a young age had been shown to increase the risk of later dependence, along with health and social consequences, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The association also said it was backing government plans to abolish so-called \u201caccompanied drinking\u201d \u2013 a provision in German law that allows young people from the age of 14 to drink beer and wine in public when accompanied by their parents.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theasialive.com\/german-doctors-call-for-spirits-to-be-sold-only-in-specialist-shops\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s Marburger Bund medical doctors\u2019 association called on Sunday for the sale of alcoholic spirits to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1082,652,8498,9489,5560,6654,9024],"class_list":["post-85228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","tag-call","tag-doctors","tag-german","tag-shops","tag-sold","tag-specialist","tag-spirits"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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