Failing to have reached the National Assembly, the debates on the State finances could have succeeded in triggering, in Reunion, a energetic controversy over the taxation of native rum to struggle towards alcoholism. In an modification included within the finance invoice for 2026, Senator Stéphane Fouassin (numerous proper) proposed making a Reunion surtax on all robust alcohols, elevated for imported spirits, to permit the departmental council to finance prevention campaigns and scale back consumption. “A public health issue”defends the parliamentarian, knowledgeable physician.
Réunion has lengthy been on the “podium of shame”recollects David Mété, head of the addictology division on the college hospital heart (CHU) of Saint-Denis and president of the regional addictology federation of Reunion. The island is the main area in France within the variety of deaths attributable to alcohol (450 on common per 12 months, based on the regional well being observatory) and within the variety of hospitalizations linked to alcohol use problems. It can also be distinguished by a excessive prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome. Alcohol is current in 80% of home violence, and in 60% of deadly visitors accidents.
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