Question
I think price incease will have no effect in tackling binge drinking in this country. UK charges the highest price for a packet of cigarette in the whole world, but it doesn't stop or deter smokers. Until UK government learn to educate citizens and refrain from attaching social reform legislations with financial revenue, things won't change, but get even worse. Binge drinking leads to criminal act, but we call it as "anti-social behaviour" without realising that there is a wide gap between an antisocial behaviour and criminal behaviour. It is an antisocial behaviour when you knowingly drop a liter or piss in the street. But it is a criminal behaviour when you have drank too much alcohol and went to cause disturbance in the community, stamping on cars and gathering in groups to cause harrassment in the community. I ask this government, how would extra 60p on a pint of beer solve the problem of binge drinking? What youths need is education not financial penalty.