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ASI Paper 'The Minimal Evidence For Minimum Pricing' features in the Irish Sunday Independent

The Adam Smith Institute paper 'The Minimal Evidence For Minimum Pricing' has featured in an article in the Sunday Independent which argues against imposing a minimum price on alcohol.

The methodologies underlying the most famous of these computer models have been demolished repeatedly, not least by a paper titled The Minimum Evidence For Minimum Pricing published in 2012 by the Adam Smith Institute, which concluded it was based on "unreasonable assumptions which render its figures meaningless".

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