HAVE YOUR SAY: Cheap alcohol sales across North Lincolnshire could be under threat

“YOUR CHILDREN GET CANCER FROM SECONDARY SMOKE?

VOTE ME!!!”

“I now don't frequent pubs because I can't smoke there

I can smoke when and where I want in my own home

therefore I now drink at home

this means my children see me drinking alcohol & smoking at home

can anyone see what happens next ?”

“Many older people and working people do not want to go to pubs but prefer to buy their drink from the supermarket or other supplier and drink it in their own homes, they do not cause any problem to others but they are the ones who are going to be penalised.
Start by charging the ones who cause the trouble and won't be affected by the price increase in the town centres where we the tax payer have had to pay for barriers to close our roads in Scunthorpe to protect the drunks and remove the license of any bar that serves a person who is already drunk.
Ban the drinking of alcohol in any public place and make the fines high enough to stop these people.
Alcoholics and such will do like drug users they will steal from homes, rob people in the street and shop lift more than they do now, it will not be safe to walk the street.
Watch the illegal alcohol supplies increase and this can cause greater health problems as the true contents are not known, people could turn to trying out making their own spirits with ethanol and isopropanol which the other illegal vodka like the incident in Boston contained, this will increase health problems. If a person needs hospital attention due to alcohol they should be billed for any treatment.”

“The suggested plan, makes as much sense to me as say,
increasing the cost of petrol, to reduce the number of speeding drivers!

Also, it seems to me that those people calling for these price rises, such as doctors, researchers and politicians, have above average incomes and hence, will still be able to afford their favourite tipples.”

“OF COURSE IT'S LEGAL AND THE MODEL IS CORRECT. WHO'S THE IDIOT NOW?

VOTE ME!!!”

“Did the idiots in Sheffield who did the computer modelling that came up with the fact that increasing the price of alcohol would decrease consumption to the point that we would all be healthier take into account: Bootlegging, Crime increase (like drugs crme), illegal production(even more hazardous to health), Home brewing( I'd join that brigade), there would be a lot of knock on effects that can't be imagined. It has got to be illegal to do it in the first place, a legitimate business being told they have to price themselves out of the market, surely it can't be legal?”

“I THINK CHEAP ALCOHOL IS EXCITING!!!”

“The supermarkets will simply demand cheaper prices from the brewers (like they do with the milk farmers), therefore still making a profit, it's the retail price per unit that will increase, not the trade buying price. The supermarkets will not lose, pubs will not see an influx of hardened drinkers, you will see more and more dodgy imports, and some younger people will just nick beer from the shops, which even now is very common at weekends in our neighbourhood.”

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