- Question by: Graham Tope
- Meeting date: 12 December 2007
My desire, as I think you are saying, is to recognise that alcohol is in a sense a drug and does cause as much harm, as does tobacco. The problem is that they are both legal; government gets a lot of revenue from them and yet does not spend enough revenue on tackling the issues that they cause. There is a huge disparity between London boroughs too in treatment here; is your Inequalities Strategy going to tackle that?