Minimum price per unit of alcohol is acceptable for teetotallers but alcoholics may have to fund their addiction by theft & diverting to using drugs

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Minimum price per unit of alcohol is acceptable for teetotallers but alcoholics may have to fund their addiction by theft & diverting to using drugs

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Personally as a teetotaller, a minimum price (say £0.50) for each unit of alcohol is acceptable. A bottle of whisky (70cl) would therefore cost £14. However this would result in higher profits for distillers, breweries, pubs and off licences, unless HMG tax each unit at a fixed amount (say £0.25). Such extra alcohol (& tobacco) duty received by HMRC should be used to fund medical research of high importance and need (but not necessarily of direct relevance to addiction to alcohol & other drugs); like funding research into utilising stem cells for diabetics & organ/tissue transplants, cancer, etc.

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