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MPs: its war on cheap supermarket alcohol

08/01/2010

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A group of MPs have declared war on the cheap supermarket alcohol, which they say is blighting Britain and damaging community pubs.
Introducing a minimum unit price on alcohol is "the most powerful tool at the disposal of a Government" to deal with alcohol abuse, the influential Health Select Committee has claimed.
The hard hitting report claims the drinks industry is "dependent on hazardous and harmful drinkers for three-quarters of its sales and if people drank responsibly, alcohol sales would plummet by 40%".
The report flatly rejects the "myth" that minimum pricing would unfairly affect moderate drinkers. Taking research from the Sheffield study, commisoned by the Health Department in 2008, it said a minimum price of 40p a unit would cost moderate drinkers (6 units a week) only 11p more than at present.
It said a minimum price should be introduced for the following reasons:
• It would affect most of those who drink cheap alcohol — particularly the young and low-income who suff

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11/01/2010

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RE: MPs: it's war on cheap supermarket alcohol

Let's,"Hope they", get their own "House in Order"?

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