The phrase "alcohol monopoly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a situation where the production, distribution, or sale of alcohol is controlled by a single entity or government.
Example: "The state-run alcohol monopoly has led to higher prices and limited choices for consumers."
Alternatives: "liquor monopoly" or "spirits monopoly".
Some, like Ontario, will sell it at a small number of state-run stores operated by the provincial alcohol monopoly.
Their state-run alcohol monopoly stores, the dreaded Systembolaget, were described by Susan Sontag as "part funeral parlour, part back-room abortionist".
And retailers like Sweden's Systembolaget, the state-owned alcohol monopoly, aggressively expanded the sale of bottles of organic wine by prominently displaying them in shops.
Its restrictive distribution system is under the spotlight thanks to an ongoing bid-rigging scandal at the state-run alcohol monopoly.
The future has rarely been so cloudy for Taiwan's sprawling century-old tobacco and alcohol monopoly, which the government has begun converting into a publicly traded company competing in a free market.
At Christmas – as with any occasion where your whole extended family is crammed into one house amid an abundance of unresolved tensions and alcohol – Monopoly is not always the answer.
And in some provinces, the governments are anxious to allow their retail alcohol monopolies to sell cannabis as well.
Research shows that states with alcohol monopolies have lower rates of consumption.
In Sweden, alcoholic beverages containing 3.5 volume percent or more are to be sold through the state-controlled alcohol retail monopoly, Systembolaget, or through restaurants.
Examples of this are the alcohol retail monopoly that exists in Sweden but not in Denmark and differences in cancer screening programs, with nation-wide mammography screening established earlier in Sweden (1997) [ 29] than in Denmark (2008) [ 30].
11 Since Denmark is the only Nordic country that does not have a monopoly on alcohol retail and has the least restrictive alcohol policy, it is possible that legislation and taxation could have a pro-equity effect.
