Alcohol abuse costs England £27.4bn a year: Shocking report reveals the scale of nation's booze crisis that's costing the NHS £5bn, as 10,000 Brits drink themselves to death in just 12 months
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It all means that the £12.5 billion that taxation on booze raises each year is 'dwarfed by the financial cost of harm', according to the Institute of Alcohol Studies, who commissioned the report.

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