Minimum alcohol pricing: a shameful episode
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Alcohol minimum unit pricing and socioeconomic status
1616 www.thelancet.com Vol 383 May 10, 2014 Floor prices for alcohol, beneath which alcohol cannot be sold, are in place in Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, some US states (eg, Connecticut), and eight of the ten Canadian provinces. In 2012, Scotland legislated alcohol minimum unit pricing—a lowest price per unit of alcohol—the introduction of which is pending legal challenge. In the UK, mi...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g110