The Czech Republic has prohibited the sale of hard liquor after 19 people died and dozens were poisoned by methanol-laced bootleg vodka and rum.
The ban, issued by the Health Ministry on Friday, covers the sale of any drink containing more than 20 percent alcohol. The prohibition is temporary, but no indication was given when it might end.
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If the problem was already with bootleg stuff, won't banning the legit stuff just make more people drink bootleg stuff and thus put more people in danger? Or am I having some logic fail here?
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Although maybe what's happening is that the bootleg stuff is getting mixed in with the real stuff?
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I hope the Czech authorities find where this bootleg stuff's coming from before there's a jump in incidents and deaths around fake booze.
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