Sentences with phrase «alcohol pricing saying»

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Scotland has led the world by becoming the first country to implement a minimum unit price for alcohol, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

Fergus Taylor, the executive director of Alcohol Beverages Australia, said alcohol abuse was a serious issue which needed to be tackled, but the Northern Territory minimum floor price was not the right mecAlcohol Beverages Australia, said alcohol abuse was a serious issue which needed to be tackled, but the Northern Territory minimum floor price was not the right mecalcohol abuse was a serious issue which needed to be tackled, but the Northern Territory minimum floor price was not the right mechanism.

Total Wine Wins Challenge on Discount Pricing in Massachusetts A Boston judge has ruled that Massachusetts alcohol retailers can legally sell booze at deep discounts when they order it in bulk, rebutting state regulators who said...

UK: Higher taxes better than minimum pricing, argues OFT The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) says it believes raising alcohol duties, instead of minimum pricing, would be a better way to tackle pro

UK: Higher taxes better than minimum pricing, argues OFT The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) says it believes raising alcohol duties, instead of minimum pricing, would be a better way to tackle pro... read more

Commenting on the findings of this report, IAS Chief Executive Katherine Brown said: «The desire to support pubs has often been used as a reason to resist policies to reduce alcohol - related harm, including minimum unit pricing, increasing alcohol taxes and stricter drink - drive laws.

George Rushton, director of alcohol and drug information charity Hope UK, said a minimum pricing proposal was effective in «addressing the issue of cut - price alcohol products».

Well, Cameron said something about minimum alcohol pricing and the BBC got in hot water for including a panda in a list of newsworthy women, but apart from that it was dead as a dodo.

«A lot of this response is based on a misunderstanding of how minimum pricing works,» she said, claiming an introduction of the pricing rules would result in a moderate drinker seeing their annual alcohol bill rise by just # 11.81.

Health Minister Mark Drakeford has welcomed today's expert report on minimum alcohol pricing which he says adds to the evidence that the move would help cut problem drinking.

Trevor Watson of leisure property specialists Davis Coffer Lyons said: «Today's government proposals on minimum pricing of alcohol seem to achieve absolutely nothing.

«David Cameron was right when he said he was going for minimum alcohol pricing», Campbell argued over breakfast, before going on to attack «the speed and the spinelessness» of Cameron's climb down.

The triumphant result is that the drinks colossus Diageo, as an example, could go on meeting junior ministers and special advisers to argue against, say, minimum pricing for alcohol, while Alcohol Concern (annual income, less than # 1m) would have to jump through a chilling series of hoops in order to take part in any kind of campaigning, with the risk of criminal charges if it were found in breach of a law that the Electoral Commission says is so opaque it can not confidently predict how it will polalcohol, while Alcohol Concern (annual income, less than # 1m) would have to jump through a chilling series of hoops in order to take part in any kind of campaigning, with the risk of criminal charges if it were found in breach of a law that the Electoral Commission says is so opaque it can not confidently predict how it will polAlcohol Concern (annual income, less than # 1m) would have to jump through a chilling series of hoops in order to take part in any kind of campaigning, with the risk of criminal charges if it were found in breach of a law that the Electoral Commission says is so opaque it can not confidently predict how it will police it.

Westminster is currently devising its new alcohol strategy and price is one of factors the prime minister is said to be looking.

He said the decision in March 2012 by the Coalition Government to set a minimum price of 40p on a unit of alcohol to reduce consumption was a reverse of the principle behind traditional price fixing, which had been to protect consumers from sharp rises and guarantee the availability of necessities like beer.

The Prime Minister said that proposals by ten local councils in Greater Manchester to introduce the minimum pricing per unit of alcohol in their area would be looked at «very sympathetically».

JACQUI SMITH: No, what I've said is that we, you know, of course I understand there is concern about the pricing of alcohol...

(Many alcohol retailers say that it wouldn't, and support a national pricing policy.)

«We found that during 1980 to 2009, increases in state cigarette prices and restrictions on indoor smoking led to decreases in state per capita alcohol consumption,» said Krauss.

Mercedes Castro - Niño says, «Although all the member states are aware of the need to address the problem, there are considerable differences in aspects of their approaches, like blood - alcohol limits, alcohol pricing and the application of alcohol control laws.»

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Rog, I said that «people used to argue for tobacco and alcohol because price elasticities were LOW».

The Australian National Preventive Health agency (ANPHA) has recommended against setting a minimum price for alcohol, saying it would lead to bigger profits to alcohol retailers instead of helping the Government tackle alcohol - related harms via revenue - raising measures like alcohol and tobacco taxation.

«I believe we have a moral imperative to go further in dealing with this problem here, and that's why I'm calling today for legislation to introduce a floor price on alcohol at the price of full strength beer,» he said.