Shocking report on the ‘Burden of Liver Disease'
Date published: 19 September 2012
Paul Nuttall, UKIP North West MEP says: "The shocking report on the ‘Burden of Liver Disease and inequalities in the North West of England’ showing a 20% increase in the number of men dying from the disease in the past five years should not be used as an excuse to impose a 50p minimum price per unit on alcoholic drinks.
"Raising the price of alcohol, through ever increasing duties, has made little impact to the attitudes of alcohol and merely punishes the majority of sensible drinkers.
"It is perhaps no coincidence that as the number of pubs in the North West have closed their doors for the last time, the liver disease rate in the region has shot up as an increasing number of people choose to drink at home, on their own, unsupervised."
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