[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by MTVN

http://guardian.co.uk/society/2013/m...nal-statistics



Again, there is no real evidence that this will stop alcohol problems, its blanket legislation that unfairly hits the vast majority who are capable of drinking sensibly, and would rather do so at affordable prices, just as hard as it does problem drinkers

That is just unfortunate MTVN, look back a few years at the pricing of alcohol in supermarkets compared with foodstuffs, wine and beer are actually cheaper than they were 15-20yrs ago...
Pubs are closing so social drinking is now changing to antisocial drinking, there is no landlord in your living room to send you out the door at last orders.
24hr drinking is the norm, it puts mucho green in the pockets of the alcohol companies but the liver of the NHS has cirrhosis due to the strain.
This is the article I was thinking of earlier...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...ol-consumption

''If the other 40% – what the academics call "missing" alcohol – is included, the number of people consuming more than the government-backed safe drinking limits rises significantly.

If under-reporting of alcohol is taken into account, then average consumption turns out to be 20.5 units a week for over-16s across the UK rather than the 12.3 units depicted by existing surveys.

Therefore as many as 75% of men and 80% of women sometimes exceed the daily limit of three to four units of alcohol for men and two to three units for women – many more than the 56% and 54% reported in the Health Survey for England 2008, according to Sadie Boniface, the lead author, who works in UCL's department of epidemiology and public health''