Thanks to the myriad lies of the neo-temperance movement, there is certainly room for education. Here are ten things that people deserve to know for starters...
1. The theory that underpins the neo-temperance lobby's 'whole population' approach is a demonstrably false and self-serving delusion.
2. The lowering of the drinking guidelines in the UK last year was orchestrated by a bunch of anti-alcohol zealots and relied on a model which was changed at the eleventh hour when the original model failed to support the change.
3. Moderate drinkers live longer than teetotallers, on average.
4. And that is not because of the 'sick quitter' effect.
5. Drinkers in Britain pay 40 per cent of all the alcohol duty collected in the EU.
6. Alcohol duty revenues in Britain far exceeds the costs drinking imposes on state services. Drinkers subsidise teetotallers to the tune of £8 billion a year.
7. Britain has never been a particularly heavy drinking country by the standards of other developed nations.
8. The claim that minimum pricing has worked in Canada is based entirely on one man's junk science.
9. Since 2004, per capita consumption of alcohol in the UK has fallen at its fastest rate since the 1930s and is now at the same level as in 1980.
10. Public Health England claimed last year that Britons are drinking twice as much as they were in 1980. This is because Public Health England doesn't know what it's talking about.
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