BBC News
31 May 2012
Alcohol sensors should be in every car to cut drink-related road deaths and injuries, says the government’s former chief drugs adviser.
David Nutt says motorists would have to breathe into the devices before starting their car, to test they were not over the limit.
Prof Nutt was sacked from his post three years ago after clashing with Labour ministers over drugs policy.
He later set up the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs.
That body ranked alcohol as a more harmful substance than heroin and cocaine.
He also said people in the UK would be less inclined to get drunk if they were able to smoke cannabis at Amsterdam-style “cannabis cafes”.
Prof Nutt, president of the British Neuroscience Association and a professor at Imperial College, London, said Britain was facing a “public health crisis” of “immense proportions” because of a rise in the number of alcohol-related illnesses and deaths.
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