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Originally Posted by natehale1971
I just heard that it is actually cheaper to buy a bottle of Beer on the streets of Russia than it is to buy a bottle of water. I also found out that the Russian government doesn't tax alchol and tobacco products... On the down side, 50% of the deaths in Russia are tied to alchol related issues. I just hope they aren't doing the alchol enemas we where warned against when i was in the Navy after some medical students at a medical school near Norfolk died after putting a case of beer each up their butts back in 1992/93.
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I have a suspicion that that is possible to do here in the UK if you go to the right supermarket and are willing to buy a 12 pack or whatever (buy alcohol cheaper than water I mean) - they use booze as a loss leader to bring people in. It's a big problem - not because I have any objection to people buying beer and drinking themselves into a stupor if they wish (which is what all too many do in this country) but because the rest of us who work in the drinks trade are tarred with the same brush.
I work for a company that sells fine wine and I can see things moving against us - they got tobacco and now they are coming after alcohol - and they aren't discriminating between a good chablis and an alcopop. I can see myself needing to grow my stockpile of wine for the day when we get something akin to prohibition.