date:Dec 03, 2012
unlikely to cut consumption based on price, he claimed. The heaviest drinkers are the least responsive to price changes. So minimum alcohol pricing would not work.
Dose-related poison
But Nathanson claimed drinkers are sensitive to price. Alcohol is a dose-related poison. In other words, the more you drink, the more harm it causes. So by reducing the amount they are drinking over the safe limit, you are helping to save them and it can affect children, which is very important.
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