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The statistics link in a sibling comment says Danes consume most among the nordics.
OK, but Finns aren't Nordics.
Oh they are:
Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know a lot of places with monthly alcohol purchase quotas?
Qatar has "alcohol license" for residents. Not sure about that but what i heard your employer has to say how much you get to drink. https://www.angloinfo.com/how-to/qatar/lifestyle/food-drink/... EDIT: yes article mentions this The letter must be addressed to the Qatar Distribution Company, be stamped and signed by an authorised person within the company, and include the following information: The applicant's positio…
I remember something like this in Oman as well, back when I lived there in the late 80s/early 90s.
Looking at the situation now though, it looks like it might be a very tiny bit more liberal, in that you still need a "personal consumption licence", but the quota appears to have been done away with.
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You are mostly right, it is to prevent alcoholism like other attempts are still made in different countries to limit or ban soda and sweet drinks, cigarettes, some drugs, some or all guns. It is in general good for public health and bad for average IQ.
Why would preventing alcoholism be bad for average iq?
Brain needs challenges and stimulation to develop; when people are taken care of, average IQ of society decreased over time. If you check the numbers there are several metrics where we regressed in the past hundreds of years, including reaction time, testosterones production, fertility etc. Good times create mediocre people and the times were better and better in the past centuries, while people got more and more mediocre.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always understood a quota to be a limit. Only in sales have I heard it used as you describe. For example look at EU milk quotas.
There are lots of examples outside of sales. Diversity hiring quotas, citation quotas for police, gender quotas for board of directors, survey quotas, productivity quotas, recruiting quotas (military, MLM orgs, etc), electoral gender quotas, factory production quotas, Amazon delivery driver quotas, and so on.
Fair point. I’m surprised I never thought about this before today.
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Iceland has their own breweries and i think you can get very reasonable beer, for example domestic ones
ye but you have to buy them from the government shop don't you? They don't sell alcohol in corner shops like the rest of the anglosphere.
Iceland is not in the anglosphere :)
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Smuggling is a thing, though. And transport costs tend to reduce as volume increases, and alcohol is a popular product...
Well, if we are talking illegal activities, Norway shares a long, marginally patrolled border with Sweden where alcohol is significantly cheaper. So if you are into smuggeling, I would try that first, before trying to arrange something up in the arctic sea.
Pre-covid, this was a thriving and mostly legal industry. There are quotas on how much may be imported for personal consumption.
Meanwhile, the Swedes go to Denmark for cheap alcohol, the Danes go to Germany, the Germans to Poland and the Poles to Ukraine. Thus Ukraine is the fixed point of the alcohol-flow function. This theorem was proven when I was a PhD student in a research group which contained a Norwegian, a Swede, a German, a Pole and a Ukrainian - we extrapolated the Danish connection point.
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You can bring a tax free quota into Sweden (and many other places for that matter) but you can’t buy tax free inside Sweden, can you?
Airports often have duty free shops just inside customs, so you technically might be able to on a return trip.
Yes, this is possible and legal in Sweden.
The other way to obtain cheap alcohol is to take a cruise via the island of Åland, which is not in the EU. If you plan to visit Åland, make sure to pick a ferry that actually stops there as opposed to just symbolically tossing out a mooring rope for a few minutes to satisfy the legal requirements.
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#110> Private individuals resident in Svalbard must purchase their alcohol quota in Svalbard and are not able to import tax-free alcohol from the mainland to Svalbard. I doubt local shops have particularly good assortment to choose from, do they?
Throughout Norway, pretty much all sales of alcoholic beverages over 4.7% happens through state-run liquor stores (Vinmonopolet). Their selection is pretty great, but obviously imposes limits vs. a totally open import arrangement. And if a local store doesn't have something in stock, you can order it for later pickup, much like at a library with multiple branches. I don't know how that works in Svalbard, since it's s…
Interestingly, almost all "plain" European beers have either 5% or 4,9% of alcohol (Pilsners, Lagers etc.)
It seems this may also be a measure to boost local sales?