MOSCOW, 12 Aug. The initiative of the Ministry of Health to ban the sale of strong alcohol to persons under the age of 21 deserves all support, since before this age the body is not yet fully formed and it is more susceptible to alcohol, drug or tobacco addiction, the former chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation, a deputy told RIA Novosti State Duma Gennady Onishchenko. Earlier, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Ministry of Health had developed amendments to the law «On state regulation of the production and circulation of ethyl alcohol.» In accordance with the project, the ministry proposes to ban from March 2022 the sale of alcohol with an alcohol content of more than 16.5% to persons under the age of 21. The ministry sent a letter with a request to agree on it to the participants of the working group on the «regulatory guillotine». Now alcohol is sold to citizens who have reached the age of 18. Poll Is it necessary to raise the age of selling strong alcohol? 0% Mandatory 0% No, I am against it Vote: 12:13 «The Ministry of Health with this bill makes a significant contribution to the implementation of the presidential decree on national development goals until 2030 year, which indicates five national goals, among which there is demography, a decent life and health. This (the initiative of the Ministry of Health) is a contribution to these national goals, «Onishchenko said. According to him, this proposal deserves all the support it will especially need now. «Now our liberal community will rise and another demagogy on the topic of human rights will begin. But let's leave the right to drink too much, in second place and prefer the right to preserve health for ourselves and for future generations,» the parliamentarian stressed. that the age of 21 was not chosen by chance, since it is at this moment that the development of the body, the formation of metabolic processes, is completely completed, before that a person is more susceptible to alcohol, drug or tobacco addiction.
The Federation Council appreciated the idea of selling strong alcohol from the age of 21
