date:Nov 29, 2012
minimum alcohol price would be effective in tackling alcohol misuse. Minimum unit pricing would unfairly penalise the vast majority of the population who are perfectly responsible drinkers and it would hit those on the lowest incomes hardest, he said.
Harmful levels
But Dr Vivienne Nathanson, of the British Medical Association, said minimum pricing was effective in reducing the consumption of two key groups. The two groups we really want to get to young people beginning to buy alcohol and buy