HPA warns to drink in moderation over holiday
By Yang Yuan-ting and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
As the Lunar New Year holiday approaches, and with it year-end banquets, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) on Friday said that “forcing others to play drinking games” topped a list of unacceptable ways to coerce others to drink.
The agency, citing an online list of unacceptable methods to convince others to drink alcohol, said that many traffic accidents are the result of people being forced to drink at year-end events.
The agency cited a list compiled by the Web site Daily View on the top 10 least-accepted ways of forcing others to drink, which placed at No. 2 telling partygoers that no one was leaving until they were drunk.