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		Symbiote on Sept 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Minimum unit pricing may have helped reduce alcoho... I think they chose this method because Scotland isn't able to change the alcohol duty; that's set by the UK to be equal everywhere.

TazeTSchnitzel on Sept 20, 2019 | [–]

But it also has benefits that raising alcohol duty doesn't: supermarkets etc can't absorb it by selling for a lower price or below-cost, pubs become more competitive with supermarkets, and the highest amount of alcohol for lowest price value pack disappears in theory.

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