Why not fewer pubs?

THE publicans’ lobby claimed that café bars would have merely increased the number of outlets selling drink and would have led inevitably to more binge drinking.

Why not fewer pubs?

By the same token, surely any expansion of existing pubs would have the same effect.

After all, publicans expand their premises to fit more people in so that they can sell more drink.

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