Authored by the IEA’s Head of Lifestyle Economics @CJSnowdon, ‘Short term impact of minimum pricing of alcohol in Scotland’ uses new data from the @ONS to show that there is no evidence that minimum pricing has created a step change in the rate of alcohol-related harm in Scotland
Advocates of minimum pricing predicted that it would have an almost immediate impact in Scotland, with modelling forecasting 58 fewer deaths and 1,299 fewer hospital admissions in the first year. iea.org.uk/publications/S…
In the eight months after minimum pricing was introduced, alcohol-related mortality fell at the same rate in Scotland as it did in England and Wales (seven per cent).
Read the short briefing paper here 👇
iea.org.uk/publications/S…
Read the short briefing paper here 👇
iea.org.uk/publications/S…
