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Should cheap booze be banned?
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http://www.telegraph....ing-doctors-warn.html
First it was cigarettes and tobacco, now it is alcohol, next is almost definitely going top be the very food that we eat.
Will the measure to stop supermarkets selling cheap booze do anything to cut the rate of drinking by our youngsters? Judging by the price they pay for their drinks in the clubs these days, I don't think so somehow.
/// Diane Abbott, shadow public health minister, also added to the calls for tougher measures, claiming "alcohol has been too cheap for too long". ///
Maybe it has on her salary, and taking into account the subsidy on drink, enjoyed in the Houses of Parliament bar.
But not to the pensioner or the hard working couples who enjoy a drink after a hard days work.
First it was cigarettes and tobacco, now it is alcohol, next is almost definitely going top be the very food that we eat.
Will the measure to stop supermarkets selling cheap booze do anything to cut the rate of drinking by our youngsters? Judging by the price they pay for their drinks in the clubs these days, I don't think so somehow.
/// Diane Abbott, shadow public health minister, also added to the calls for tougher measures, claiming "alcohol has been too cheap for too long". ///
Maybe it has on her salary, and taking into account the subsidy on drink, enjoyed in the Houses of Parliament bar.
But not to the pensioner or the hard working couples who enjoy a drink after a hard days work.
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if you are an out and out alcoholic and i have known some, then you will buy and drink anything, and often to the exclusion of food, it's why you rarely see a fat alcoholic, and what does them in the end, is usually the cigs that go along with the nasty stuff like white lightening, or special brew, as the arteries by that stage are ready to go bye bye.
"But I still maintain that if they are determined, those who intend to get drunk will do it even if the price is raised. They find the money somehow, just as smokers do however much the tax is increased. "
Of course they will Bambiagain, but I don't think that is the only issue really. Like I said earlier, there's a difference between the problems of hopeless alcoholics and the problem of people of limited means (and indeed not so limited means) being encouraged to drink more because they can buy more for less or the same amount of money.
In the same way the comparison with Russia's vodka-crazies is also inappropriate (Yeltsin, now there's a leader who ruled by example lol)
Of course they will Bambiagain, but I don't think that is the only issue really. Like I said earlier, there's a difference between the problems of hopeless alcoholics and the problem of people of limited means (and indeed not so limited means) being encouraged to drink more because they can buy more for less or the same amount of money.
In the same way the comparison with Russia's vodka-crazies is also inappropriate (Yeltsin, now there's a leader who ruled by example lol)
If the government are all that concerned about our health why don't they ration alcohol?
They could issue us all with ration books and when one had bought their quota that would be it.
Or if they didn't want to go to that extreme measure, clubs and pubs could issue a card, which had to be stamped every time one purchased a drink, when one had a fully stamped card then time would be called for that individual,
These measures have not been fully thought out, but I think you get the idea.
They could issue us all with ration books and when one had bought their quota that would be it.
Or if they didn't want to go to that extreme measure, clubs and pubs could issue a card, which had to be stamped every time one purchased a drink, when one had a fully stamped card then time would be called for that individual,
These measures have not been fully thought out, but I think you get the idea.
if that happened AOG, I'd become tee-total and sell off my allowance to the highest bidder!
It's fair to say we should be left to make our own decisions, nobody wants to be in a nanny state, but I don't see a problem in taxing those who make the wrong decisions that will eventually have a detrimental affect on those who don't. A 'health tax' on the likes of alcohol, cigarettes and crap food that went straight into the NHS coffers would be my ideal outcome.
It's fair to say we should be left to make our own decisions, nobody wants to be in a nanny state, but I don't see a problem in taxing those who make the wrong decisions that will eventually have a detrimental affect on those who don't. A 'health tax' on the likes of alcohol, cigarettes and crap food that went straight into the NHS coffers would be my ideal outcome.
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