Lithuania enacts ban on energy drinks for minors, in global first

A customer holds a energy drink can in front of a warning poster in Vilnius on November 1, 2014Lithuania on Saturday enacted a ban on selling energy drinks to anyone under 18, in what officials in the Baltic country claimed was a global first. "It's a revolutionary development the world over: we didn't find a single other country to have this kind of ban," health ministry official Almantas Kranauskas told AFP. Under the law which parliament adopted in May, selling energy drinks to minors is now punishable by a fine of up to 400 litas (116 euros, $146). A recent survey showed 10 percent of school-aged youth consume energy drinks at least once a week in this EU Baltic state of three million people, Kranauskas said.

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