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Originally Posted by wadey
Most of the kids get pxxxxx before they even go out to save money but why would putting up the price of alcohol work? They backed down over cheap cider which the loonies love, why not put a 4% limit on drinks sold in pints to stop the Stella idiots.
No doubt the next idea will be to double the price of food to reduce the number of fatties
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Because not everyone drinks tasteless corporate **** water like fosters, carlsberg etc a good lager tends to be >5% and I'd say roughly half cask ales are over >4%
It comes back to the same issue punishing the majority for the sake of the minority wont work .
Upping the prices wont work.
It's the culture that needs to change, that 24 hour drinking will allow to change, but it will take decades. The current situation is those who were brought up to cram as much down as possible in a short period of time have been given longer to do so in. They are a lost cause, the change will happen not when those people stop going out, but gradually through the generations down the line when the people directly influenced/ brought up by people with that mentality stop going out.
As mentioned in the post above price does not have an effect on the social problems alcohol, its the mentality of the people.