CIGARETTES AND ALCOHOL are set to rise in price from midnight tonight after changes announced in this afternoon’s Budget. The excise duty on a bottle of wine will increase by €1, while a pint of beer or cider will increase by 10 cent.
Wine drinkers have been left reeling after a “dramatic†increase in the excise on a standard bottle was announced by Minister for Finance Michael Noonan today.
From The Scotsman Published on Tuesday 4 December 2012 02:11 Recent improvements in alcohol-related deaths in Scotland are to be welcomed, but the fact remains that we have the highest…
Children are almost twice as likely to have been drunk or consuming alcohol every month if their parents are heavy drinkers, a survey has found.
ALCOHOL consumption in Scotland has fallen for two years in a row, as the price of alcohol has increased, a new NHS report has shown for the first time.
Recent improvements in alcohol-related deaths in Scotland are to be welcomed, but the fact remains that we have the highest level of alcohol consumption in the UK and one of the highest rates
Scientists believe some people have a gene that hard-wires them for binge drinking by boosting levels of a happy brain chemical triggered by alcohol.
Two hundred and fifty-two people died in Northern Ireland in 2011 as a direct result of alcohol abuse, the Social Development Minister said, on 3 December 2012.
SCOTLAND’S alcohol-related mortality rate is two and a half times higher than it was in the early 1980s, new figures show. • Death rates from drink remains nearly twice as high as in England and Wales • People in deprived are