Drug officer
No more beer from the tank? Streeck wants to restrict alcohol sale
Germany is a country of alcohol drinkers. In order to proceed, the Federal Government wants to reduce sales at petrol stations. Operator raises the alarm.
The Federal Drug Commissioner Hendrik Streeck speaks for less easily accessible alcohol offers in retail. “One way would be to remove alcohol from supermarket coffers in the so-called Quengelgasse,” said the CDU politician to Ippen Media. This would also be a relief for formerly dependent, not always reminded of alcohol. “Another way would be to restrict the sale of alcohol at petrol stations. Why should drivers be allowed to buy alcohol for the onward journey?”
No more alcohol at the gas station? Streeck wants to achieve a “cultural change”
Streeck explained that this is “so far only mind games that we can slowly achieve a cultural change”. It is important to educate more about the dangers and to make it difficult to access alcohol. The fact that less alcohol is consumed overall can only be created gradually.
Streeck’s statements promptly met with rejection at the petrol station interest association (Tiv). If the sale of alcohol at the petrol station is restricted, customers simply gave way to long-open supermarkets and then probably bought even larger containers there, the dpa request said. The interest association also pointed out that the protection of minors at petrol stations would be kept particularly strictly, and warned of economic consequences: “All sales that are deducted there promote an already creeping die of petrol station.”
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Source: Stern
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