AbstractA critique is offered of the Distilled Spirits Industry Council position paper ‘Alcohol Availability’. It is argued that this position paper presents a simple‐minded analysis of the complex relationship between the availability of alcohol and its consumption which pays no attention to the importance of price in determining consumption. As a consequence, it misconstrues the lessons to be drawn from the Victorian experiment in liberalization and fails to consider its implications for the incidence of alcohol related pro
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