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- From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
- Subject: Re: Alcoholism in Scandinavia.....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.224141.21365@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- References: <1eailsINNjlq@corax.udac.uu.se> <1992Nov19.161009.15360@eua.ericsson.se>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 22:41:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.161009.15360@eua.ericsson.se>, osstlm@eua.ericsson.se (Tomas Lundstrom) writes:
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- >
- > However,
- > there is one thing I'm missing in this debate, the *costs* involved. The costs
- > directly or indirectly caused by alcohol consumption are *huge* in Sweden, and
- > still they are among the lowest in Europe ! (I think I remember a book last
- > year called "Supen kostar 200 miljarder" "the Booze costs $40 000 000 000". A year !
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Are you sure about this number?
- > I think that the costs (health care etc.) are a good measure of the consumption
- > of alcohol, better than the amount of bottles sold (and the supposed amount of
- > "moonshining"). (So, consumption in Sweden is probably relatively low)
- >
- > So, if a majority in society wants restrictions, simply because that they don't
- > want to pay the price, I don't see the absolute evil in that.
- > Maybe it's everybody's "right" to manufacture and consume as much drugs as
- > he wants, but im not sure it's his "right" to have society pay his own hospital
- > bills, his drunk driving victims' hospital bills and funeral costs, as well as
- > his and others' companies costs because somebody didn't turn up on work a
- > monday morning, for three weeks, or never ...
-
- Dinking do cost the society a lot of money, but don't forget that the society
- earns a lot from it too. I saw a TV-program a year or so ago where they stated
- that alcohol taxes were among the 5 largest taxes here in Norway...
-
- [deleted...]
- > Tomas
- >
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