This study (not published yet) has the strong appearance of pseudoscience!
Are these scientists or government sycophants? Probably, both!
This is also another example of terrible government paternalism!
This study was featured by one of the usual suspects: Bloomberg School of Public Health. Mr. Bloomberg, do you know what your money is buying?
Like prohibition, government price controls are some of the worst policies to deal with a social issue. This is well known and established for more than a century! Smuggling and questionable and dangerous booze making are triggered by such bad policies.
E.g. what about all the responsible drinkers (the majority of drinkers), who have to pay now higher prices as well? Why do they have to pay more?
Instead of focusing on the minority of people with alcohol abuse disorder, governments still prefer one size fits all solutions at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century! And it is cheered on by some dubious scientists putting out such studies. The study even admits this fact of a well recognized minority (see yellow highlight below) is prone to overconsumption.
"Today, Public Health Scotland (PHS) and The Lancet publish new evidence showing the impact of alcohol minimum unit pricing (MUP) on deaths and hospital admissions attributable to alcohol consumption. Carried out in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, the study evaluated the impact of MUP on alcohol health harms, over the first two-and-half years of the policy. ...
"The findings highlight that the largest reductions were found for males, and for those living in the 40% most deprived areas, groups which are known to experience disproportionally high levels of alcohol health harms in Scotland. ..."
"The findings highlight that the largest reductions were found for males, and for those living in the 40% most deprived areas, groups which are known to experience disproportionally high levels of alcohol health harms in Scotland. ..."
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