Minimum pricing

BMA Scotland chairman Brian Keighley claims that the cost of premature deaths due to alcohol in Scotland is estimated at £1.46 billion and that a minimum price of 40p per unit of alcohol would prevent 26 deaths.

By The Newsroom

Published 25th Apr 2010, 23:22 BST

Updated 25th Apr 2010, 23:54 BST

This suggests he calculates each death to cost about 56 million. Perhaps he could explain this unbelievably high cost.

GM LINDSAY

Whinfield Gardens

Kinross

Scotland