If it moves some serious alcoholics off super-strength cider, that's a good thing. They have more time between the start of addiction and eventual death and that means they have more opportunity to try and get out of it.
I also hope it will make 18-25 age bracket decide to stop drinking earlier in the night, and have fewer of them end up in A&E with alcohol poisoning. From conversations I hear on the tram this seems not entirely unrealistic.
Will it though? I mean, are these people price-sensitive with alcohol? or will they give up other things in order to afford the now more costly drink?
For instance the rising price of petrol results in a lot of people moaning about the cost of petrol - has it resulted though in more people cycling, walking, taking the bus? (I really don't know)
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Date: 2012-11-30 12:54 pm (UTC)I also hope it will make 18-25 age bracket decide to stop drinking earlier in the night, and have fewer of them end up in A&E with alcohol poisoning. From conversations I hear on the tram this seems not entirely unrealistic.
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Date: 2012-11-30 01:55 pm (UTC)For instance the rising price of petrol results in a lot of people moaning about the cost of petrol - has it resulted though in more people cycling, walking, taking the bus? (I really don't know)
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