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All over the news this morning are calls once again to raise the price of alcohol to prevent related deaths due to excessive drinking.

I don't actually drink, but I can't see the price hike doing anything other than raise more tax.

Price rises for cigarettes are constant and make no difference. Street prices for drugs escalate all the time and people still do it.

Basically, if the price of alcohol goes up, the only consequence will be alcoholics spending more money on it than they currently do, and at the extreme end of the scale they may be driven to petty crime to fund it.

It's not rocket science to me really! It's the same as petrol prices too - they skyrocket, but people still drive cars.
 

There was something out last week showing that even those that suffered heart attacks due to bad diet weren't shocked into changing their diets. Idiots will be idiots, but at least if prices go up then it'll be them that funds their healthcare rather than the rest of us.
 
People do drugs/drink/over-eat because they have crap lives or are unable to cope with what life dumps on their plate. I've never had an addiction and hope I never will, but I'm still able to empathise. Who here that knows an addict would be willing to just condemn them as weak and leave it at that? "To err is human."
 

These ideas once again, might look good in theory, but fall flat on their face when put in practice...

It was on the news the other day, they said a cheap bottle of wine will rise to about £3.85, and a pint to about £2.90. Now I know we're in a recession here but that is hardly a ball breaker is it? As tubey says that means that people that drink will just simply pay 30p more a pint to do it, I pay £1.29 for a litre of petrol ffs.

Regardless of were politicians stand on the scale, they still seem to all lack a bit of fcuking common sense.
 
Summerskin said:
These ideas once again, might look good in theory, but fall flat on their face when put in practice...

It was on the news the other day, they said a cheap bottle of wine will rise to about £3.85, and a pint to about £2.90. Now I know we're in a recession here but that is hardly a ball breaker is it? As tubey says that means that people that drink will just simply pay 30p more a pint to do it, I pay £1.29 for a litre of petrol ffs.

Regardless of were politicians stand on the scale, they still seem to all lack a bit of fcuking common sense.
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Bruce Wayne said:
There was something out last week showing that even those that suffered heart attacks due to bad diet weren't shocked into changing their diets. Idiots will be idiots, but at least if prices go up then it'll be them that funds their healthcare rather than the rest of us.
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Summs it up from were I'm live. My addiction was Carbonated beverages I would drink upwards of five cokes a day. Doc told me if I abstained from them for a year I would lose as much as 10 lbs and not even alter my lifestyle in any other way. As I'm a prediabetic I have begun some wholesale changes which are seeming to be paying off along the waistline.

But if it isn't alcohol it's meth or just smoking all these seem to be spiraling our healthcare pounds & dollars upward.
 
Tubey said:
All over the news this morning are calls once again to raise the price of alcohol to prevent related deaths due to excessive drinking.

I don't actually drink, but I can't see the price hike doing anything other than raise more tax.

Price rises for cigarettes are constant and make no difference. Street prices for drugs escalate all the time and people still do it.

Basically, if the price of alcohol goes up, the only consequence will be alcoholics spending more money on it than they currently do, and at the extreme end of the scale they may be driven to petty crime to fund it.

It's not rocket science to me really! It's the same as petrol prices too - they skyrocket, but people still drive cars.
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Some would say that's the idea, mate..
Has nothing to do with a concern for the consumer..
 

Raising the cost excludes only the poorest in society from drinking, raising the price of a bottle of own brand vodka from £8.99 to £10.20 isn't going to stop the vast majority of people for doing it. The political elite think the answer to everything is to push down harder with their jackboot on the underclass but don't seem to realise that all this does is lower their self-worth and drive them to crime and anti-social behaviour, if you are made to feel like scum long enough you start to act like scum.
 
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