Passive drinking, analogous topassive smoking, refers to the adverse consequences experienced by those around someone who is experiencingalcohol intoxication. These include the unborn fetus and children of parents who drink excessively,drunk drivers, accidents,domestic violence andalcohol-relatedsexual assaults.[2]
On 2 February 2010Eurocare, the European Alcohol Policy Alliance, organised a seminar on "The Social Cost of Alcohol : Passive drinking".[3] On 21 May 2010 theWorld Health Organization reached a consensus at theWorld Health Assembly on a resolution to confront the harmful use of alcohol.[4]
