The cheap cost of alcohol has been blamed for the culture of binge drinking in the UK. In Scotland, the introduction of a new minimum price per unit for alcohol was expected to ‘immediately save about 50 lives a year, cut hospital admissions by 1,200 a year and mean nearly 23,000 fewer days lost from work in the first year’, according to the Scottish National Party (1). Although the policy has not yet been passed, debate continues about the merits of placing a minimum cost on alcohol.
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