Ministers ‘too cosy with the alcohol trade’ as doctors warn extra 250,000 lives are at risk from liver disease Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1359008/MPs-cosy-alcohol-trade-Doctors-warn-extra-250k-lives-risk-liver-disease.html#ixzz1EbDH50mM

group of leading doctors will today brand ministers’ strategy for tackling Britain’s booze culture ‘inconsequential’ and blame ministers for being ‘too close’ to the drinks industry.
The liver disease specialists claim up to 250,000 extra lives could be lost in the next 20 years if the Government fails to introduce proper minimum pricing for alcohol.
Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, past president of the Royal College of Physicians; Nick Sheron, from the University of Southampton; and Chris Hawkey, of the Queen’s Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, are launching their attack in The Lancet journal.