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No don't think it will make much difference. Its much the same in most towns in the UK on a Friday or Saturday night , and the women are just as bad as the blokes these days.

In a word "NO". The supermarkets and large stores will make a killing but they will find ways to sell alchohol just as cheaply.

The only way to stop this problem is by educating the children from an early age, and also educating the problem parents who simply don't care what their kids are doing, they start young and this leads to all the future problems.

Scotland has a bad alchohol "culture" simply upping the price will definitely not solve the problem IMO!

They may say it will but the people will find something else to use or make their own drink. Government only helps when the peoples are helping them selfs. I am not casting judgment and perhaps the people need a break but more government taxes will never do it alone. Each country has so many pennies in a pot and giving more pennies to the government will only take away those pennies from the people. And people without pennies go out to steal them.

The home brew realy took off because its cheap but now beer is cheap to buy home made is not so popular. yeast is cheap and all the other items can be got for free to make wine. Nature provides free ingrediens most of the year.

I think it could compound existing problems, the drinking issue needs to be identified and addressed as a serious cultural problem, making alcohol more expensive doesn't make it less appealing to those who abuse it

No, alcohol is easy to make, this has been noted.  All you're going to end up with is poorer drunks. Education is key and AA's.............

Some how i think it will do more to feed money into treasury that reduce the problems

Didn't work in the US

A pack of cigarettes costs nearly $6 in some places in the US.  I doubt it has deterred many from smoking, nor has it caused others to not smoke in the first place.
People will find a way to get what they want.  Beg, borrow, steal.  
Nice try, but I don't see it being a viable solution.  Education, like ROMOS said, is key.  

romos your a scotsman what do they put in the beer up there it's the only time i get realy too much on holiday in dumfries

It won't work, b/c when an alchoholic really needs a drink(s),  he/she will beg, borrow, and steal from members of his/her  own family to get some alchohol. Same thing with heavy drugs......like heroin