What are the effects to economy if the consumption to alcohol will be less.!

Today in the business class we were discussing about the useful topic:"ALCOHOL"
And now I will write about what the Government can do to encourage people drink less and the effects of these ways on the economy.
So what can the Government do to make people drink less?

• Legislation:

The Government can change the law by increasing the allowance of drinking alcohol,for example from 18 years old to 20 or 21.So that there will be less teenage coustomers on alcohol.

• New policies on the retailers:

Now the recession is making less people's income.So that,alcohol is bought in supermarkets or alcohol retailers in stead of buying it in the pubs or clubs.So the government can set up the new law like buying the limited amount of alcohol drinks.For example you can just buy 4 or 5 bottles of vodka.=)

• Make advertisements against the alcoholic drinks

This way is quite useful because it doesn't take a lot of time and easy to give people's information because television is too familiar to people now!It may record osme deseases and illnesses to make people be scared of alcohol like Mr.Chris did in his blog about smoking kills!=)

• Propagate the negative things for people to understand

Like the government can organise lectures and talks about the the alcohol affects in the drinker's health and so on.

• Tax

The government can put on higher VAT on the alcoholic products so that,people will buy less because of the price has been increased.For addicted people,it may not affect a lot but for students and teenagers...it will defenetely decreased!

• Create non alcoholic drinks but looks like normal alcoholic drinks.

The government can encourage and give the ideas that suppliers should create the image of the non alcoholic drinks to be looked like alcoholic drinks.So that,of course in the parties or special days,there couldn't be no alcohol.So people can keep these non alcoholic drinks to join in with others with not a big difference

But what may these policies affect on the Government.Forst of all,the demand for alcoholic drinks will decrease so that there will be less money comes to the government.Therefore, the Government spending will be less and it may cause the negative growth.Government will spend less on road investments,buildings,NHS and educations.
Also there's another problem may appear like shops and markets sell alcohol will have no sales and no profit.So that,they will lose their jobs and increase the unemplyment of the country.And it may cause the country to be behind of other countries in the race of economy.