Last orders

Booze and fags feature prominently on tomorrow's Daily Post newslist. Today we brought you the views of the RCN nurses who have to deal with the miserable consequences of binge drinking at casualty units across Wales. Tomorrow we bring you a selection of powerful interviews with people whose lives - and the lives of those around them - have been turned upside down by their addiction to alcohol.
We've always been a boozy nation . The latest figures show nearly half of men - and nearly a third of women - drink to excess on occasions. Don't get me wrong, I count myself among this number, although I have managed to stay clear of brawls and A&E departments.
There's lots of reasons for what has happened - not least the official sanctioning of corporate greed. Bars hate to cut prices - they'd rather sell you two bottles for one. Supermarkets do discounts if you pay multiple bottles. The other day I went to an off licence to buy a bottle of wine.
"If you buy two of them you get another free".
"But I only want one."
"But if you buy them now you'll save money and you can keep the others for another time."
"But I won't, we'll have one bottle and then we'll say 'mmm, that's lovely, she shall we crack open another?' - and before you know we''ll be spouting jibberish and sticking on the old punk albums."
And fags? We'll bring you a report on Rhodri Morgan's announcement that the public smoking ban will come into force on April 2 - ahead of England's...and the Assembly elections. So that's thousands of voters, who will be heading to the polls twitching with rage that they have just been stopped from having a smoke with their pint.
Nice timing, Rhodri.