Alcohol 'will kill 90,000 more over next 10 years' - Gosh really Don, another made up figure?
The number of alcohol-related deaths has tripled in the past 25 years, shocking figures reveal. -Yet consumption overall has decreased, strange that Don?
And 90,800 people - the equivalent to a packed Wembley Stadium - could die over the next 10 years. - Ah now its could die, come on Don make your tiny tax payer funded mind up.
The Alcohol Concern survey found the number of alcohol-related deaths soared from 3,054 in 1984 to 8,999 in 2008. - Ah right blanket figures spun out of context, very good Don.
Chief executive Don Shenker said: "This is an unacceptably high death toll and the worst part is that all these deaths are avoidable.
"This rise also runs in parallel with the growing affordability of alcohol." - Yep keep pushing the prohibitionist message Don.
Whereas of course, in reality, alcohol is (on average) more expensive than it used to be - see here. According to the Office of National Statistics:
ReplyDeleteBetween 1980 and 2008, the price of alcohol increased by 283.3%. After considering inflation (at 21.3%), alcohol prices increased by 19.3% over the period.