Minister should learn from ban on smoking when tackling drink crisis

THE latest report on binge drinking and its effects comes with the almost mandatory recommendation that draconian taxes be applied to the demon to try and solve the problem. It won’t solve the problem, of course.

It will just swell the exchequer, giving the Government more money to waste.

There was the same reaction recently when it was announced that vodka in sachets was to be released on an already soaked (in both senses of the word) drinking public, especially the young public.