The additional impact of rising taxes as far is possible the the effect on inequality. People on high incomes will perhaps still purchase alcohol despite the prohibitively high tax, for poor people the tax and alcohol will take a larger portion of the persons income, thus it becomes regressive towards low income earners. If these low income people switch to black market, home brew spirits the problem may worsen.

The aim of introducing taxes on vodka and beer is so the government revenue will increase so the government can use this money to treat alcoholism. First of all, in my opinion the government has to introduce a tax on both products otherwise the government revenue will not increase since the consumer will buy the substitute of the product. They will not archieve anything when they only tax vodka because the consumer will then consume beer. THe demand for the products will most porbably not decrease drastically since alcohol is a inelastic product; quantity demanded does not respond strongly to a price change.

Additionally I think the government should try to rise the taxes for both beer and vodka as high as they can, so people in the lower class where unemployement is very high, do not have the chance to start or countinue drinking. The only thing those people have left is alcohol so the government should solve this problem as well. The money they save from the people who stop drinking, they can use for either the treatment of alcoholism or other treatments.