This heavy taxation _____________ in beer being seen as a ‘high-end’ drink driving drinkers to hard spirits. The current policies of each and every state government are _____________ aimed at raising revenues from the alcoholic beverage sector without differentiating between categories of low and high alcoholic beverages. These policies _____________ social needs and objectives, thereby driving drinkers to opt for liquor consumption. One must appeal to the states to stop looking _____________ at beer producers to fund their coffers.