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And I think, on balance, minimum pricing is worth trying.

The authors' findings about the experience in Saskatchewan, where minimum pricing is much closer to MUP, are perhaps more instructive for British purposes.

"Minimum pricing is a very straightforward, simple and I'd say cost-effective measure for tackling where the problems are," he said.

One surprise about Canada's way of minimum pricing is that the provincial governments that do it do so mainly to bring in money rather than to protect public health, says Dr Perry Kendall, British Columbia's provincial health officer.

[But] given our strong view that minimum pricing is incompatible with EU law and likely to be ineffective, we now hope that our appeal can be heard quickly in the UK supreme court.

"Nobody has ever claimed that minimum pricing is a silver bullet for all of Scotland's alcohol-related woes, but it is an important tool that this country needs and we now look forward to being able to implement the policy".

Last month, Lord Carloway, Scotland's most senior judge, said minimum pricing was justified as there was a link between alcohol-related deaths and cheap alcohol.

The Scotch Whisky Association again warned that minimum pricing was likely to be illegal, breaching European and global rules on free trade and competition.

Indeed, the Sheffield study, which has been used to justify minimum pricing, was quietly revised last year to show that the policy would lead to just a 1.6% fall in consumption.

The Scottish government insisted minimum pricing was "perfectly legal".

Holyrood ministers have said minimum pricing was vital to address Scotland's "unhealthy relationship with drink".