Brit Kids Get Drunk for About Half the Cost of a Chocolate Bar

Youngsters in the UK can get drunk for half the price of a chocolate bar, a new study has revealed.

A recent study has revealed that youngsters in the UK can get drunk for half the price of a chocolate bar.

Supermarkets and off-licences are selling cider for as little as 10p per unit of alcohol. Lager can be bought for just 26p a pint. The average price of chocolate such as a Yorkie bar is 60p.

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Researchers visited England's eight biggest cities outside London to monitor booze prices. They found three-litre bottles of strong cider - containing seven per cent alcohol-on sale for just 2.25 pounds.

But 2.25 pounds is around a third of a child's average weekly pocket money.

"Young men and women can buy their maximum recommended weekly allowance of alcohol for the price of a small latte coffee or cheap magazine," the Sun quoted CCHIC spokeswoman Deborah Evans as saying.

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"Meanwhile, the true cost of alcohol is picked up by taxpayers in the form of soaring hospital admissions, crime and anti-social behaviour," she said.

The survey also found alcopops aimed at teenagers sold alongside fruit juices rather than in the stores' alcohol sections.

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Evans has called for "strong and decisive action to tackle the plague of illness and injury caused by selling alcohol cheaper than water".

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