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one would imagine that a price floor of £5 for a 2L (4.5 pints) bottle of cider wouldn't prevent many people from being able to purchase it to literally save th
by RugnirViking 4y ago
one would imagine that a price floor of £5 for a 2L (4.5 pints) bottle of cider wouldn't prevent many people from being able to purchase it to literally save their life. It would however, help people think twice about going through multiple of them a day?
I am usually quite sympathetic to the plight of addicts and the poor regulation and political environment around it but having lived in the UK for years ive only really heard good stuff about this. It's really not a high price point, it cuts out the really nasty stuff only.
- braingenious 4y agoMy point is that people literally don’t “think twice” about things that they are addicted to. Price tends to change behavior in other ways, like maybe they’ll steal it if they can’t afford it. Source: Over a decade clean. I personally watched a family member seize, fall, and fatally hit his head on the sidewalk. A close friend saw the same happen to his grandfather, though it was a coffee table not a sidewalk. Both of them had a BAC of 0, so their deaths would not have been ruled alcohol-related even though they were both directly caused by acute alcohol withdrawal.