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Wife’s a stroke rehab nurse, folks who are supposed to getting all the help they can to get their health back, and they get bacon croissants for breakfast, all the meals are meat and potatoes, braised sausages. Veg is a few token green beans boiled to death
Jesus, I still have flashbacks to the Crosshouse canteen when wife was in labour. Grim. Fried something (to death) in a roll which sat like a lead weight after being up 30odd hours.
The only certainty is lots of non problem drinkers have to spend more, as do lots of poor problem drinkers thus depriving their families of other necessities.
If they are non-problem drinkers, they don't HAVE to spend more, they CHOOSE to spend more.
I'd agree with you if people actually had free will and behaved rationally in their own long term self interest. But they don't and so they buy exactly what they did before only for more money.
With respect to junk food, every time someone reaches for McDs or a twix in theory they could choose something else. But that decision is a product of so many different factors that the person doesn't even realise or understand.
This pish about "choice" is a horrible kind of gaslighting where any complex system tyepe problem can be turned into a mere personal failing.
The gambling problem we now see is partly because of the national lottery.
Is it? I'm really surprised at that?
You must be 18+ to gamble, even scratch cards.
I thought the rules changed recently to require 18+, does that not apply to Scratch cards?
How much of the gambling problem has been fed by <18s buying lottery tickets and scratch cards?
Gambling can only take place in licenced places.
Some of the worst gamblers are found in those places.
No gambling apps or online (you can currently even gamble on your tv box!).
No gambling advertising, or at least it must be moved to being after 9pm.
I think you'd really want to find an international solution - and all that happens with any new regs is an industry pops up right on the limits. No gambling on live sports - fine we will gamble on fantasy football; no entries purely on chance - fine we will add a stupid question at the front to pretend its a game of skill; etc...