Whether you have a problem with alcohol or not, you will be paying more unless you choose to drink less.
Nicola Sturgeon says the policy is aimed at the cheapest and the strongest drinks, the sort of booze she said can kill a teenager for a fiver.
Putting a pound or two on a bottle of cheap cider is unlikely to deter those under age kids who want to drink from finding the cash to do so.
However, Ms Sturgeon also said it is part of a wider package of measures, which sometimes gets lost in the publicity and controversy surrounding this one policy.
Well, how about getting seriously tough on those who sell alcohol to kids?
Some get a warning, others their licence suspended for a month and maybe a fine.
Selling alcohol to children is illegal because it is dangerous and as the Deputy First Minister rightly said, can lead to death.
So let's start taking it much more seriously and close down any shop caught selling to kids. No ID, no sale to the customer. No excuses. No benefit of the doubt for the seller.
MSPs have a warning bell to remind them when it is time to go to the chamber to vote, but perhaps they also need a school playground- style bell to remind them when lunchtime is over.
Former Minister, Frank McAveety, famously landed in bother after he claimed to be at an event and missed the start of ministerial questions, while eating a pie in the canteen.
Now, Joan McAlpine, a close aide of the First Minister was nowhere to be seen when due to ask Nicola Sturgeon a question on osteoathritis.
Where could she have been as the Presiding Officer rebuked her in her absence and demanded an apology.
It appears she was spotted having lunch in the Holyrood restaurant with none other than Mr Salmond.
IT is said that politics and sport shouldn't be mixed, but here goes anyway.
After Queen's Park Rangers captain Joey Barton went a bit nuts elbowing one, kicking another and trying to head butt a third Manchester City player on Sunday, one Holyrood observer wondered if he prepared for the game by watching his collection of Eric Joyce videos.
