There is a price to be paid for deliberately putting a toxic amount of a substance into your body.

My dad knows a pub here in Edinburgh that sells beer cheap but pretty much everywhere else you're looking at at least four quid for a pint. I don't particularly mind it because I prefer beer on draught and don't go out that often.

I don't think that it's so much the prices. The smoking ban killed the pub culture. I can remember when you could go out to a normal working class pub and it would be full of hot totty getting pissed up on that strong cider. It ain't like that anymore though and now if you want to get anything you have to go on the internet for it, including women.

Not sure, I don't drink beer, a pint is close to half a liter, we have normal glasses here.
(I only drink pink beer )

Price varies per city/town/hamlet. Guess a glass would be anything between E2.50 and god-knows-what-they-charge in Amsterdam.
And it wouldn't surprise me if prices go up in tourist season. Everything seems to get more expensive then, meaning us locals have to pay more too. Sucks.

I know tobacco is much more expensive in the UK, I was shocked when I saw the prices there. But compared to Belgium, it's bluddy expensive in Holland. (Belgium is some 40% cheaper)
Maybe a similar thing goes for beer/alcohol?

Actually, they're trying to put a minimum price on cheap booze here because of all of the underage binge drinkers. Tobbacco tax in the UK is really high because they can tax a vice like that and say that they're trying to get people to quit smoking, or finance the National Health Service. They just tax a lot of things that used to be cheap for various reasons. Fish and chips is now a luxury but I can cook it at home for a fraction of the price.

Pubs are shutting down and I blame the smoking ban but obviously they need to put up the prices now if they want to make any money at all and that adds insult to injury. I don't need to go out to a dead pub where I can't smoke or chat up women and there's a shop at the end of my road that sells eight packs of lager for under a tenner.

I usually go out on a Friday afternoon after work
you can bet your bottom dollar that if i stay out until night time it will cost well over �150
f---ng outrageous

Yeah, same here, most of it is tax. That many ppl have quit smoking the last few years, younger ppl often don't start smoking anymore, and sales have dropped that much that last week the Philip Morris plant in my area shut down. 2000 (!!!) ppl lost their jobs and the effect will be even greater, think logistic (truck companies, drivers), cleaning personal, catering and so on and so forth. A major disaster for the area, as it is poor as it is, few jobs. There's also couples that both worked at the plant, for over 30 yrs, now they're both unemployed, go figure!
Philip Morris will start a new plant in Eastern Europe or something, labour cost is much cheaper.

Pubs is the same shite over here with the no-smoking. Some have a smoking room elsewhere, but still no fun as you can't stay with friends and gotta stand in some closed-off stinking room. Often you gotta go outdoors. I'm not going out, spending money to stand in the friggin street.
The other day I had some pub party thing, around 11pm many had had enough and were ready to go home. But the non-smokers (the ones that always whinge about it) left as well, because of that we then were allowed to smoke indoors (smaller pubs do this when there's just a few ppl left). Everyone hurried back and we stayed for another 2 hours, lol. Sure smoke filled the place (very small pub), but the vibe had immediately gotten a lot happier, ppl were really enjoying themselves. Proprietor happy too, as ppl kept ordering drinks, so for him it's a lot better for business when ppl can smoke. THe handful of non-smokers who'd leave, are outnumbered by the smokers that would stay and spend money.

A pint of beer is around �5-6 in Sweden. YIKES!!! And I'm off to the BierHaus in Stockholm tonight...I will need to take out a small loan to survive until payday.

Only 2 hours east of Houston. Plus, the bar where I go is inside a casino, so it's open 24 hrs everday of the year, except Christmas.