Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said that, as drink had become cheaper, alcohol-related hospital admissions had quadrupled and half of prisoners said they were drunk when they committed offences.
Increase in profit for alcohol retailers due to an increase in price of alcohol
A study into a 50p minimum alcohol price by Sheffield University said the policy would see a 5.5% cut in drinking - with harmful drinkers' consumption falling by more than 10%, compared with a 2.5% fall for moderate drinkers.
Terrible for everyone:
--> no job = no income
--> less spending
Terrible for government:
--> decrease on government revenue
--> government has to spend more money on unemployment benefits
--> government is receiving less money and spending more money
--> budget deficit
Decrease in GDP due to decrease in consumer spending
It added that Spain's commercial banks are increasingly leaning to official sources for funds as they struggle to deal with piles of bad loans, especially in real estate.