The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7329 p852
11 December 2004

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Public health

Two cases for 20 quid

From Mrs J. R. Edwards, MRPharmS

Last week saw both the publication of the White Paper on public health warning of the dangers of binge drinking and pharmacists accepting a contract that requires us to advise customers about healthy lifestyles.

I was, therefore, somewhat taken aback to see in my local Sainsbury’s store two huge pallets, piled high with cut-priced boxes of strong lager, placed incongruously next to the general sale list indigestion remedies — and little more than a trolley’s length away from the dispensary counter itself. One can almost feel sorry for the customer who, with the pharmacist’s advice to moderate alcohol intake still ringing in his or her ears, instantly comes across the inducement to break their resolve of “two cases for 20 quid!”

Julie R. Edwards
Knaresborough, North Yorkshire

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