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Minimum pricing for alcohol came in the UK today
by ballistic 28 Replies latest jw friends
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Patty Cake
@cuckoo It's like where I live. Except they are adults, not teens
I think there would be a riot here if the government tried to do have a minimum price. People smashing liquor store windows, stealing the booze...wait, that happens here already. Guess they'd have to do something else.
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dozy
" when I used to smoke, people used to say I was costing the NHS millions "
Billions , actually , http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8086142.stm - British Heart Foundation estimates 5 billion GBP annually - though this is offset by smokers dying 5 - 8 years younger on average so they aren't as much of a burden in their older years. Forest (the BAT / Imperial Tobacco financed organisation) reckons that the tax that smokers pay on tobacco more than offsets the cost. I guess it depends how you want to run the figures.
I'm not a big fan of minimum alcohol pricing - I think it is really about changing attitudes and aspirations, especially amongst younger people. When I have been abroad ( to France , for example) there is just a completely different mindset.
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cantleave
Yeah Dozy - I agree. In continental Europe low cost alcohol is readily available, but the culture is not one of binge drinking or preloading!
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cuckoo in the nest
Hello Patty, we get a wide demographic of boozehounds here as well. The acne-encrusted alkies just get noticed more because they get up more people's noses, but there's a couple of "senior" characters too. They're normally on the street corner outside the off licence, bottle of strong lager in hand, and add a little local colour to the town. "Bubba" and his mate are the the traditional town drunk type, think Rab C. Nesbitt or Shadrach Dingle.
The only local colour the rat-arsed kids add is usually in a puddle on the pavement...
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ballistic
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR can anyone see that post, it's blank at this end.
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talesin
First one is blank, you musta been using IE9.
hope life is good :))
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botchtowersociety
Just brew your own. Distilling isn't all that complex either.
