Tagged with: excise duty
The Alcohol Industry - A case study of health versus wealth
Nat O'Connor 16/03/2012
Nat O'Connor: The recently completed (Feb 2012) Steering Group Report On a National Substance Misuse Strategy has taken a public health approach to the issue of alcohol, and it estimates the costs to Irish society of dealing with alcohol abuse to be €3.7 billion. At the same time, the alcohol manufacturing and retail industry provided €2 …
Chemical solutions to economic problems?
Rory O'Farrell 04/07/2011
Rory O'Farrell: I feel it rare that I have reason to be thankful to the FF/PD government of 2002-2007. However, they had one policy that was so …
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