Doctors in the UK want to eliminate "cheap alcohol" to help keep folks healthier...and add a 10 percent tax...will 
expensive alcohol be next? BD
Leading doctors and charities highlighted the steep rises in alcoholic liver cirrhosis and drink-related deaths as they launched the Alcohol Health Alliance, which brings together 24 health groups to lobby for changes in drinking laws. The Royal College of Physicians is openly in favour of a rise in alcohol taxation.
A further study by the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University showed that more than half of all young adults consumed cheap supermarket drinks at home before going on a night out. "The issue is the discounted sales, and the Department of Health is already progressing research that is looking at that whole area of using discounted sales to get people to buy more."
Supermarkets are selling beer at a cheaper price than bottled water and risk fuelling the binge-drinking crisis, it has been claimed. Apart from lobbying MPs for an increase of up to 10 per cent in alcohol tax, the organisation - to be called the Alcohol Health Alliance - is expected to push for warning labels and greater restrictions or even a blanket ban on alcohol advertising.
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