| Comment | The introduction of MUP certainly worked, but after this point I suspect it's marginal gains?
i.e. is increasing the price of a cheap bottle of wine from £5 to £6.50 really going to make much difference to alcohol-related deaths in the same way that MUP getting rid of industrial-strength cider did?
I'm not sure about this bit:
> they say inflation will have "significantly eroded" the effect of MUP
surely it makes no difference what the cause of the price increase is? If inflation takes care of the problem independently of MUP isn't that a good thing? Household incomes and benefits certainly aren't tracking inflation, so it's not like alcohol is becoming cheaper through purchasing power |
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