Alcohol in Russia, What Should the Government Do?

Today at the first class of COMM 101, we discussed several topics based on our pre-class readings. I did not have a chance to mention my idea about regulating the alcohol abuse in Russia so I decided that my first post will be a rant explaining my idea. First of all, the discussion that was brought up in class was if the government should raise the price of the Vodka as an attempt to decrease the amount of alcohol abuse. Most of the class either agreed that raising the price would help decrease the amount of abuse or the fact that it would just encourage the Russians to simply house brew their vodka. However, I had a different idea about what the government should intervene in. After hearing from the Russian student that most of the people did not know the effects of alcoholism, I thought it would be a better solution if the citizens were educated about alcohol abuse. How you may ask. But I figured that the best and easiest method the government could take is to have a policy where the companies would have to use a defined % of their label to describe the dangers of alcoholism. This is what the tobacco industry is mandated to do in most countries. Its just that the gory pictures of lungs will be replaced with damaged liver and all sorts of lovely graphics. Putting warnings on the labels will not change the price of the vodka which will keep most people happy. On top of that, the Russians might notice the significant change of layout on their vodka labels and take time to read the warnings. This can be a possible solution or atleast a start to the decrease of alcohol related problems haunting Russia. But thats just my opinion.