> And yet Scandinavian countries have had great success by raising the price and limiting the availability of store-bought alcohol.

Great success?

1. People there still buy a lot, even at expensive prices.

2. I have never seen so much heavy consumption and problems in Southern Europe than what I saw living in Finland.

3. I had never seen people brewing their own wine in their flat in my country (not counting real wine in farms when I was a kid, of course). Youngsters wouldn't even use berries like their elders, but just sugar & yeast (bearing the suiting name of 'kilju').

4. You could sometimes illicitly buy moonshine alcohol from a car trunk on a car park, in plastic water bottles. Classy.

5. Anecdote: I remember vodka was smuggled from Russia in timber lorries (trunks were hollowed out and filled with bottles) :-D