Should cheap, sweet alcoholic drinks be banned?

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Opinion

Alcohol experts are warning parents to keep their children away from cheap, sweetly flavoured drinks laced with enough alcohol to kill them.

Liquor Licensing Inspectors Institute president Murray Clearwater held up two 1.25-litre bottles of a raspberry lemonade called Big Foot at a conference in Manukau yesterday which he bought at a price of "$15 for two".

The drink is eight per cent alcohol - double that of a standard beer.

"That's enough to kill someone, let alone a child," he said.

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