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Plan to set minimum price for alcohol
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Will this have any effect on crime or alcoholism?
Mr Cameron seems too think so.
/// The Prime Minister said banning the sale of alcohol at less than 40p a unit could produce "50,000 fewer crimes each year and 900 fewer alcohol-related deaths per year by the end of the decade". ///
Where has he plucked these figures from?
Will this have any effect on crime or alcoholism?
Mr Cameron seems too think so.
/// The Prime Minister said banning the sale of alcohol at less than 40p a unit could produce "50,000 fewer crimes each year and 900 fewer alcohol-related deaths per year by the end of the decade". ///
Where has he plucked these figures from?
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/// Why does it always come down to money .I would have thought that the way to solve it would be to not allow the people to drink so much in the bars ///
You may have a point there, why not issue a set number of tokens upon admittance, and then when all of them have been exchanged for alcoholic drinks, it's soft drinks only?
/// Why does it always come down to money .I would have thought that the way to solve it would be to not allow the people to drink so much in the bars ///
You may have a point there, why not issue a set number of tokens upon admittance, and then when all of them have been exchanged for alcoholic drinks, it's soft drinks only?
ummmm
You may have a point there.
But when we went to dances and we wanted a pass-out to pop to the pub, they would stamp the back of one's hand, so that one could return to the dance.
Perhaps a similar principle could be used, whereas when one had received the first tokens, then one's hand would be stamped, so that one could not get more tokens at the next bar?
Just a thought.
You may have a point there.
But when we went to dances and we wanted a pass-out to pop to the pub, they would stamp the back of one's hand, so that one could return to the dance.
Perhaps a similar principle could be used, whereas when one had received the first tokens, then one's hand would be stamped, so that one could not get more tokens at the next bar?
Just a thought.
@weecalf The problem is that a lot of trouble is caused because people get tanked up at home on cheap booze BEFORE going down the pub. Raising the price of alcohol will do nothing except impede on the enjoyment of people who drink responsibly. It will not stop crime because people who commit crime drunk will continue to do so -they will have to rob or mug more people to afford the extra cost of their booze. Children whose parents are alcohol dependent will suffer as mum and dad struggle to buy their Carlsberg specials and maybe people will try and distill thier own or go back to drinking meths?
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Nannybooby, and then worse still is the effect of drink AND drugs together. Young lives snuffed out by idiots like these. Does the govt honestly think a few pence on alcohol is going to stop it. BTW this was local to me.
Nannybooby, and then worse still is the effect of drink AND drugs together. Young lives snuffed out by idiots like these. Does the govt honestly think a few pence on alcohol is going to stop it. BTW this was local to me.
Just another thought on this, if Cameron is hoping to control the amount we drink by increasing the price at the supermarkets, those who frequent clubs and pubs already pay extortionate prices for their drinks so how can this work, one will still see them throwing up, and urinating on our streets, no matter what the cost.
Better policing of our under-age drinkers is the answer, and let those adults who drink at home still enjoy the cut-price drinks from the supermarket.
Better policing of our under-age drinkers is the answer, and let those adults who drink at home still enjoy the cut-price drinks from the supermarket.
sorry ummmmm , for the ist time I find myself at odds with you I think drug taking is a far more serious problem among the young than drinking,most kids will go through a short faze of drinking then reality kicks in and they stop. Dont think thats the same for drug taking. This isnt anew problem it was ariund when I was young many many many years ago ,Iknow of several "friends" who died young as a result of drugs and only one from drink.
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