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Alcohol and taxation
Author(s) -
Ludbrook Anne
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00290.x
Subject(s) - binge drinking , alcohol , alcohol abuse , work (physics) , criminology , political science , public economics , law and economics , psychology , economics , psychiatry , alcohol consumption , engineering , biology , mechanical engineering , biochemistry
Binge‐drinking and the abuse of alcohol have become an important issue; in the last budget the Chancellor increased the tax on alcohol with the specific aim of reducing these social evils. Will it work? Anne Ludbrook looks at the evidence.