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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Alcohol price study defended



An ACADEMIC has defended the study used by the Scottish Government to seek to impose a 45p a unit minimum price on alcohol.

Anne Ludbrook, professor of health economics at the University of Aberdeen, said she was "slightly concerned" that Holyrood's health and sport committee sometimes misunderstood the value of the modelling work that has been done on the issue. > > > >

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