the sale of alcohol. I believe the alcohol related cost to the NHS is only a third of the total income the Government collects from duty/vAt on wine alone. Put it this way. if you buy a bottle of wine for 4.99 then you pay 2.73 to the tax man in duty and VAT. So consumming 25 bottle a year or less than one every two weeks would cover the NHS cost. Every bottle contains 10 or 11 units, so easily within the recommended limits too. The Government makes a fortune out of public consumption on alcohol and should concentrate on tackling the anti social behaviour associated with it rather than continually increasing duty way in excess of inflation. Its a fact that wine duty has increased by 46% in the last four years alone, at a time when as a nation we are actually drinking less. How is this fair?" "Presumably with pubs closing week by week and supermarkets almost loss-leading with alcohol offers, more drink is being taken home by the tray full / car load to be consumed there? So the 70 cost should be forced onto supermarkets to pay for their irresponsibility"