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Raise alcohol prices to save lives: British
doctors
Wednesday December 14, 2011 05:55:09 PM,
IANS
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London: British
doctors have urged the government to raise prices of alcohol so
that thousands of lives, including those of "harmful drinkers and
young people", could be saved.
In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, signed by the Royal College of
Physicians and the British Medical Association among others, a
total of 19 experts said there was an "urgent need" to raise the
prices of cheap alcohol.
"There is a wealth of evidence to show a direct correlation
between alcohol affordability and levels of harm," the letter
said.
"In 2010, alcohol was 44 percent more affordable than in 1980, a
trend mirrored by an increase in cases of alcohol-related health
problems and social damage."
"We urgently need to raise the price of cheap drink. Harmful
drinkers and young people are likely to be the most responsive to
price increases," Sky News quoted the letter as saying.
The doctors said more than a million people in Britain are
admitted to hospital every year because of alcohol-linked
problems.
Drinking was also associated with one in four deaths among young
people aged 15 to 24, they said.
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