Alberta-Based Retailer Hit by Canadians Drinking Less Booze, Smoking Less Weed

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Dutch brewers and pub owners are worried about their viability now that a new tax increase on alcohol is looming. In the first half of the year, nearly three percent less beer was sold than last year. "This paternalistic cabinet threatens to destroy the cohesion of society," says an enraged brewers' chairman Fred Teeven.

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Dutch people are increasingly skipping beer. Beer sales are declining due to changing drinking habits and the rising costs of the alcoholic beverage. Have you started drinking less beer than a few years ago?