Wine sales opinion rejected
PA Auckland Statements by Mr R. J. Smithies, director of the Consumers Institute, that there are no observable social illeffects of wines sales through supermarkets are “pure nonsense,” according to the Auckland Alcoholism Co-ordinating Committee.
The committee's secretary, Ms Kim Conway, said evidence in Britain showed that wine sales through supermarkets ■ had increased alcohol problems in women and young people. “This is especially true of cask wines. Groups of young people will sit round and drink a cask the way they used to drink bottles of beer,” she said. Mr Smithies was wrong if he thought such sales would not worsen abuse, she said.
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