Todays edition of the Waikato Times reports the sad death of a 22year old woman, through motor accident injuries, as a result of alcohol addiction.
This young woman had a history of no less than 4 drink driving charges. Had lost her license at least once. She is now another of our fatal road accident statistics.

Now that we have finally seen the light with regard to nicotine addiction, why can we not do something with our alcohol problem, and I don't mean just increasing the age to 20. I mean to increase the tax on alcohol, particularly RTD's and use that extra tax to assess and rehabilitate,particularly young alcoholics.

Our hospitals do not need the extra work that the over consumption of alcohol creates.

Farmercorby.