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There were predictable howls of outrage from Alcohol Concern and their transport equivalents BRAKE at the news that a filling station in Kenilworth was offering a discount on fuel to customers who also bought alcohol (http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2012/01/15/kenilworth-petrol-station-slammed-by-safety-campaigners-over-cheap-fuel-deal-for-booze-buyers-66331-30123601/).
A spokesman for Alcohol Concern said: “This irresponsible promotion is a direct encouragement for people to make unplanned alcohol purchases when people may be driving to visit friends and family. This is bound to increase the likelihood of drink-driving.”Oh come on, are there any recorded drink-driving cases whatsoever where the driver has called in to fill up, seen a four-pack of Carling on sale and thought “oh, I’ll just have these for a bit of refreshment during the journey”? And surely anyone so inclined would be just as likely to buy some drink from a Tesco Express they were passing.
The article also lumps this in with more general statistics about drink-driving without any evidence of there being an actual link.
Of course, for Alcohol Concern, any success in restricting alcohol sales anywhere is another little victory. Looking back through the archives, I see that this issue has cropped up already (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/07/closing-down-debate.html).
(H/t to JuliaM (http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.com/2012/01/make-itstop.html))
And I see that is post #1000 on here :-)
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There were predictable howls of outrage from Alcohol Concern and their transport equivalents BRAKE at the news that a filling station in Kenilworth was offering a discount on fuel to customers who also bought alcohol (http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2012/01/15/kenilworth-petrol-station-slammed-by-safety-campaigners-over-cheap-fuel-deal-for-booze-buyers-66331-30123601/).
A spokesman for Alcohol Concern said: “This irresponsible promotion is a direct encouragement for people to make unplanned alcohol purchases when people may be driving to visit friends and family. This is bound to increase the likelihood of drink-driving.”Oh come on, are there any recorded drink-driving cases whatsoever where the driver has called in to fill up, seen a four-pack of Carling on sale and thought “oh, I’ll just have these for a bit of refreshment during the journey”? And surely anyone so inclined would be just as likely to buy some drink from a Tesco Express they were passing.
The article also lumps this in with more general statistics about drink-driving without any evidence of there being an actual link.
Of course, for Alcohol Concern, any success in restricting alcohol sales anywhere is another little victory. Looking back through the archives, I see that this issue has cropped up already (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/07/closing-down-debate.html).
(H/t to JuliaM (http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.com/2012/01/make-itstop.html))
And I see that is post #1000 on here :-)
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