Saturday, 2 January 2010

Fun with numbers

Adam Collyer compares and contrasts some more completely made up statistics on the 'cost' of alcohol to the NHS.

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2 comments:

sobers said...

Does anyone know what the cost to the NHS of alcohol is vs the amount of drinks duty and VAT that the govt gets?

2 January 2010 at 13:33
Mark Wadsworth said...

Sobers, taxes on alcohol would appear to cover the (inflated) cost by about four-to-one.

With smoking it's more like eight-to-one.

2 January 2010 at 13:54

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