A law to set a minimum price for selling alcohol in Wales has been unveiled.
Ministers believe tackling excessive drinking could save a life a week and mean 1,400 fewer hospital admissions a year.
Pricing is seen as a "missing link" in public health efforts, alongside better awareness and treatment.
Under a 50p-a-unit formula, a typical can of cider would be at least £1 and a bottle of wine at least £4.69
.
A typical litre of vodka, for example, would have to cost more than £20.
The Welsh Government has not yet decided what the price will be, however.
My predictions? Booze cruises to Bristol, a rise in homebrewing, and the price of dope goes down.
Dear god, lucky I'm returning to the nation of Kernow, not to my home country Wales.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
I don't recall the price of a beer in Wales 45 years ago but I will never forget that my very first legal pint (The Swan With Two Nicks in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire on July 21 1967) cost me 11 1/2d in the old money which equates to just less than 5p today. During my University years I had a vacation job at a wine merchant - baseline whisky, gin and vodka were 2 pounds 4 shillings and eleven pence (GBP 2.25 nowadays) which was almost all tax. The premium whiskies like Johnnie Walker Black Label and Haig Dimple were more expensive; and these prices were for the standard bottle which was, IIRC, around 750 mL. So 20 quid for a bottle of vodka does not seem outrageous, especially as your typical pint of bitter in a pub is now around GBP 4 or eighty times what I paid then. If spirits had risen the same as beer then a liter bottle would be around GBP220 by now.
Norway uses extremely high prices to control drinking. It appears to work. Of course you have a lot further to go to cross a border. http://www.pintprice.com/
Top 10 most expensive countries
Greenland £7.19
Norway £6.87 ($9.02 in real money)
Qatar £6.39
United Arab Emirates £5.80
Israel £5.55
Djibouti £5.48
Singapore £5.40
Sweden £5.00
United_Arab_Emirates £4.86
Guadeloupe £4.80
rubato wrote:They used to have "booze cruises" to the continent didn't they? Maybe those were soccer matches.
yrs,
rubato
Oh god.....
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
