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Originally Posted by Escapee
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4147058.stm
Will this have any affect or is the guy an idiot?
I fail to see how increasing the price of alcohol to 3 times the price will affect binge drinkers. the binge drinkers will go out less often and the moderate drinker is the one that will suffer.
I guess it will be cheaper to go out and buy illegal hard drugs.
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I've been saying that for the last year, I got lambasted on here a few months ago for saying the same thing. Take Norway for instance, a pint of beer is over £5, they have no trouble over there because it's to expensive to go out. They are after stopping the binge drinking, they tried to stop it in the early 90's when they gave the 12 hour opening the go ahead the Government said it will stopp all the binge drinking, did it work??? NOPE. All they are doing now is giving the punter an extra hour to get lashed even more thus creating more trouble at a later time.
Here is the link.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...770#post322770