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On 26 November 2015, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced that alcohol would be banned in the state from 1 April 2016. [11] Kumar officially declared the total ban on 5 April 2016, and said in a press conference, "All type of liquor will be banned in the state from today.
The legal drinking age in India and the laws which regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol vary significantly from state to state. [1] In India, consumption of alcohol is prohibited in the states of Bihar, Gujarat, Nagaland, [2] and Mizoram, as well as the union territory of Lakshadweep. There is partial ban on alcohol in some districts of ...
Currently, alcohol prohibition is enforced in many Muslim majority countries, in parts of India, and in some Indigenous Australian communities and certain northern communities in the Canadian territories. [1] They can range from complete ban all the way to bans on sales during certain times. [2] Afghanistan [3]
Beginning on January 2, 1971, advertisements featuring cigarettes were banned from American TV. Advertisements for alcohol products are allowed, but the consumption of any alcohol product is not allowed in a television advertisement (for example, an actor in a beer commercial cannot be shown actually drinking the beer).
Sale and consumption of alcohol is legal in most parts of India other than four states including Gujarat. According to the World Bank 22.5% of 1.3 billion Indians live below the poverty line. Illicit hooch is brewed in villages and then smuggled to the cities for sale at cost of ₹ 8 (9.2¢ US), one third of the cost of legally brewed liquor. [5]
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On 20 June 2024, an incident of poisoning due to the consumption of illicit liquor occurred in Kallakurichi district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. [3] [4] [5] It resulted in vomiting, stomach aches and diarrhoea due to the presence of methanol in the liquor. [6]
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