> And yet Scandinavian countries have had great success by raising the price and limiting the availability of store-bought alcohol. Great success? 1. People t

> And yet Scandinavian countries have had great success by raising the price and limiting the availability of store-bought alcohol. Great success? 1. People there still buy a lot, even at expensive prices. 2. I have never seen so much heavy consumption and problems in Southern Europe than what I saw living in Finland. 3. I had never seen people brewing their own wine in their flat in my country (not counting real wine in farms when I was a kid, of course). Youngsters wouldn't even use berries like their elders, but just sugar & yeast (bearing the suiting name of 'kilju'). 4. You could sometimes illicitly buy moonshine alcohol from a car trunk on a car park, in plastic water bottles. Classy. 5. Anecdote: I remember vodka was smuggled from Russia in timber lorries (trunks were hollowed out and filled with bottles) :-D