scottsdad Posted 2 hours ago Author Share Posted 2 hours ago England urged to bring in minimum unit price on alcohol as deaths rise 10% a year Guardian article. Usual suspects telling the same lies. Quote Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: “If you put up the price of alcohol, it will reduce the amount that is being consumed. The evidence from Scotland is that it does reduce consumption among the heaviest drinkers who experience the most harm, and it does reduce deaths.” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54_and_counting Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 1 hour ago, Alert Mongoose said: Surely the MUP is aimed at a longer term societal change? I don't think it's helpful (for either side) to be making any measurements or pronunciations until at least 15-20 years can be studied? Even that isn't going to be wholly accurate, as people get older they might change habits of going to the pub etc to drinking in the house, which means more bought at shops etc which may skew the stats Instead of just ramping up prices, the reasoning behind why someone drinks excessively should be studied (again) with more support networks to help people give up or at least tone down their bevvying For some though, no help makes a difference, in my line of work i always remember every second monday the same guy would come into our shop and load up with 2 weeks worth of cheap cider, not a bit of food in his trolley till he got all his cider, and once he paid for his booze on the way out he'd top up his gas and leccy at the paypoint, if we ran out of cheap cider he'd buy the next one up in price range, same amounts just spent more These people are likely unhelpable (is that a word) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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