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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2001;285:1283.

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Alcohol plays a role in one in four deaths of European men aged 15 to 29 years and in as many as one third of the deaths of men in this age group in parts of Eastern Europe, according to new data from the World Health Organization (WHO).

These new figures and other data from the WHO Global Burden of Disease 2000 Study were presented last month in Stockholm to European health ministers, medical experts, and others attending the WHO European Conference on Young People and Alcohol.

Aggressive marketing of alcoholic products to youth is an important part of the problem, said WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland. "Not only are children growing up in an environment where they are bombarded with positive images of alcohol, but our youth are a key target of the marketing practices of the alcohol industry."

Meeting delegates drafted a landmark "Declaration on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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