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| ▲ | OldfieldFund 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Unpopular opinion, but I think this is a great idea for alcohol and cigarettes, especially in areas with high rates of alcoholism. |
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| ▲ | SOLAR_FIELDS 2 days ago | parent [-] | | That is in fact why alcohol is insanely expensive in Norway. Because they have historically had high rates of alcoholism and want to combat that. | | |
| ▲ | punnerud a day ago | parent [-] | | Long ago there was a law that every farm in Norway had to produce beer, because the king could potentially visit.
It’s said coffee was introduced to try to reduce the alcohol consumption, but Norwegians kept consuming alcohol like before and staring to drink large amount of coffee also. |
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| ▲ | pc86 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It's because of the insane taxes and government-owned monopoly on sales. But you'll still find apologists in this thread saying with a straight face that "it's actually reasonably priced" which is objectively false. |
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| ▲ | tallanvor 2 days ago | parent [-] | | It's really only because of the taxes. Vinmonopolet prices are marked up by 10.4 NOK per liter plus 21% of the purchase price excluding taxes and duties up to a maximum of 250kr per item. Of course, this means they can't have loss-leaders, but at the same time, you can end up with very good deals on expensive drinks relative to many other countries. Of course I would love to see Norway lower some of it's sin taxes - these mostly only hurt poor people. |
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