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  • Minimum alcohol pricing
  • bitasuite
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    More nanny state bollocks!

    Depends if you think the state have a responsibility to improve the public’s health.

    Reminds me of this tweet from Farage

    IMO there are wider determinants to health which need to be tackled at a policy level to address health inequalities. This policy is an effective way of doing so.

    irc
    Full Member

    So once Scotland has minimum pricing will anything stop me buying booze online delivered from England at English prices?

    dirtyboy
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    Went to Reykjavik a few years ago and alcohol was mental money, still saw winos swigging cans on the street’s tho.
    If you want it enough as an addict will, you won’t care.

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    bitasuite
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    If you want it enough as an addict will, you won’t care.

    The amount of homeless people drinking on the streets in Southampton is huge. Such a measure would certainly make it harder for them to get smashed on 99p gut rot cider. As I teenager we would get hold of that stuff too. Not sure it’s such a big issue nowadays, but for underage kids it will be less affordable.

    elzorillo
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    Just as higher taxes have fuelled a now 90% saturation of black market tobacco.. so the same will happen with alcohol. Maybe not at present, but as the gov slowly milk another tax cow in the name of health.. so the majority will start purchasing it on the black market. and lets face facts, it’s a lot easier to brew alcohol than it is to smuggle in tobacco..

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