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Realities of boozing are tough to swallow

By Andy Coghlan

25 March 2009

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The days of binging on cheap alcohol may be numbered

(Image: Sierak’i/Jacquemart/Rex Features )

HORROR of horrors: The cost of booze is going up. Whatever you’re used to paying for your favourite tipple, prepare to pay more. The days of cheap alcohol are numbered and, apparently, it is for our own good.

In wealthy nations all over the world, momentum is building for big hikes in the cost of alcohol. The rationale is to stop us all drinking to the point where we make other people’s lives hell by vandalising property, urinating and vomiting in the street, attacking people including members…

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