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Minimum alcohol pricing a potential ‘life-saver’, say experts
17 Dec 2020
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Introducing a minimum price per unit of alcohol in England could save thousands of lives in the next decade, experts have said.
In a letter to The Times, four experts in the field of alcohol addiction welcomed the findings of an Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report which proposed tax reforms to ‘tackle heavy drinking’.
The IFS based its recommendations on new evidence from alcohol purchases in Scotland. Scotland became the first country in the world to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol in 2018.
Life-saving measures
Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, Sir Jeremy Elwes, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath and Professor John Iredale said in their letter that the relatively low price of alcohol per unit in England cost “thousands of lives a year”.
Wealthier adults are far more likely to drink to excess than those on lower incomes, according to a new report, which also found that teenagers are shunning alcohol.
The Health Survey for England, which interviewed more than 8,200 adults in 2019, found that increasing household income was linked to drinking more than 14 units of alcohol per week.
Among men, the highest proportion of those drinking at this level were in highest income households (44 per cent) compared with 22 per cent in the lowest income bracket.
Meanwhile, 25 per cent of women in the highest income homes drank alcohol at higher levels compared to 9 per cent in the lowest income homes.