Sentence examples for pricing of alcohol from inspiring English sources

The government has rejected unit pricing of alcohol in favour of a duty-plus-VAT minimum.

To examine the issue further, Alcohol Research UK plans to carry out more work looking at the effects of minimum pricing of alcohol when it comes into force in Scotland.

"Basically, we have confirmed that in the next term of parliament, in the autumn, there will be a bill for minimum pricing of alcohol," a spokeswoman for the Scottish Government told Guardian Healthcare.

Under minimum pricing of alcohol, the state dictates the cost, or at least the "floor" price, that pubs, clubs and supermarkets must charge for beer, wine and other drinks.

Porter expresses frustration with the current government's record on public health interventions, citing the about-turns on introducing plain packaging for cigarettes and the spat on minimum unit pricing of alcohol as "examples of things which are really good evidence-based public health interventions that are being played for electoral advantage".

A Scottish government spokesman said: "Minimum pricing of alcohol does comply with European law, provided it is justified on the basis of public health and social grounds".

Moreover, on account of the relatively low price of alcohol in South Africa, access to alcoholic beverages is easy and may have contributed to easier uptake and over-indulgence among the youth (25).

The price of alcohol was reduced by tax reduction on alcoholic beverages in Denmark and Finland, abolition of quantitative quotas on alcoholic beverages in Sweden and Finland, and more generous opening hours of alcohol retailers in Sweden.

Yet bringing the price of alcohol down to that of water risks increasing alcoholism and forcing the very poorest into even dodgier booze dens.

"The urban myth is that, if the price of alcohol goes up, the moderate drinkers are going to stop but the alcoholics will find a way to fund their addiction.

The price of alcohol fell, particularly in supermarkets.