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Originally Posted by Derek S
I'd like to see two different rates of duty for alcohol. One for drinking in the pub and another higher charge for off-sales.
Having that with a far greater emphasis on licensees having responsibility for not letting patrons get totally hammered and a minimum price per unit stopping the 3 litres for a pound type cider would do more to stop binge drinking than headline grabbing but totally unworkable ideas like this.
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I would also prefer this. It would be interesting to see how much DV and other drink related drains on the NHS are fuelled by binge drinking at home.
There is a severe lack of accountability with supermarket sales vs Licensed premises. At least with the pubs etc allowing excess drinking
could result in losing the licence. Whereas the worst offence supermarkets seem to be up against is selling booze for consumption by under 18 year olds.