Big boozer, big loser April 29, 2008
RAISING taxes to make all alcohol more expensive is one way to curb Australia's booze problem, a visiting academic says.
Professor Robin Room said alcohol was too cheap and readily available from a public health point of view."If you want to seriously do something about alcohol in Australia, then raising taxes is a good way to do it," he said.
"From a public health point of view, the higher the better.
"It's a big problem, alcohol is responsible for a lot of health and social problems."
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