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Originally Posted by Smudge
Surely an idea to counter drinking would be to only sell it on some form of credit card?
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Although the two are not directly comparable, the UK's debt problem isn't much better than it's drinking problem. I'm not sure that encouraging we all grow to depend on expensive unsecure forms of credit is
that brilliant an idea.
And of the 30-40% of the UK population who don't have credit cards, at least half would probably find it hard to get one at all. Or would only find cards which charged an extortionate amount of interest.
Either way, I'm not sure how it would really help. Ok, young children might find it harder (although they'd just borrow someone's card) to buy alcohol themselves, but among the rest of the population you might simply encourage people to buy insane amounts of booze because of the added hassle/transaction-costs everytime they went to the bar/shop.