tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32958319.post2071924506075766083..comments2011-02-14T11:23:22.807-08:00Nordicwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09747931670188355461noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32958319.post-29215319153310891252011-02-14T11:23:22.807-08:002011-02-14T11:23:22.807-08:00Amazing.<br /><br />How a journalist / newspaper editor can been so totally taken in by what is nothing but propaganda!? Propaganda from the monopoly who fights to keep it privileged status.<br /><br />Most of what you write is not true or very questionable.<br /><br />In spite of (or thanks to?) the monopoly Swedish alcohol consumption has been steadily rising since the 40s. A successful public health program?<br /><br />The &quot;new&quot; study you refer to is not really new. It&#39;s an old one that&#39;s been dusted off. And to call it &quot;study&quot; is stretching the description to the limits. It is a group of anti-alcohol people who have sat down and guessed (ops, sorry, &quot;estimated&quot;) what the effects will be.<br /><br />The monopoly is not at all the world&#39;s biggest buyer. That&#39;s a myth too. It might have been once but no longer. And if the prices are so favorable on wines and spirits in Sweden why do people drive in droves to Denmark and Germany to shop?<br /><br />Not to mention the mediocre selection that Systembolaget offers to its customers. And rarely do they buy the best wines from producers in Italy, Spain or France. Those producers are generally small scale and a monopoly buyer wants big volumes. Like bag-in-box from South Africa. Millions of liters.<br /><br />You can read a more thorough analysis of that incredibly smug, self-congratulating ad (how can you be so presumptuous?) <a href="http://monopolet.blogspot.com/2009/11/vi-ar-bast-i-varlden-hurra-vad-vi-ar.html" rel="nofollow">here in the Monopolbloggen</a>.<br /><br />Where you also can read about how alcohol consumption in Canada rose *less* in a province that abolished the alcohol monopoly than in the province that *kept* the monopoly.<br /><br />Or perhaps your post was really a joke?<br /><br />-PPer and Britt, BKWinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10186610884099544351noreply@blogger.com