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Re: Seventy two year old man stopped from buying alcohol
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Originally Posted by Incognitas
I know the no more than 32 Paracetamol rule was brought in to stop suicides from overdosing and apparently it's supposed to have worked(apparently a suicide can't work out the go to another shop trick) but I reckon the real winners were the pharmaceutical companies.
It began to cost double the price to buy the blister packs in packs of 32 or less.When I could buy 100 at a time it was so much cheaper.
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The reason is that many suicides are 'spur of the moment' decisions made when the opportunity is there. They don't tend to be planned. So if you happen to have 50 paracetamol in the house, you might take it. If you don't then you don't. Few people would actually go out and buy paracetamol in order to commit suicide. The 32 paracetamol rule reduces the number people tend to have in the house (because people tend to not go to another shop/go back into the shop).
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