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28 May 2006
Is Europe coming for our pints?
Spiked online has a leaked EU memo defining the social costs of drinking alcohol as "passive drinking". The document is expected to shape an EU Commission document on alcohol later this year.
3 comments:
Anonymous
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The problem with your post crataegus, is that you are not describing drinking, you are describing drunkeness. If you want to see the social cost of proscribing alcohol, just look at the mafia in the USA. Prohibition made them what they are and they now infest every corner of society.
Well Crataegus, I do agree with you that attitudes do need to change. Who is buying the alcohol for these youths?
I don't think restricting the availabilty is the answer. Certainly a consideration should be given to curbing TV advertising. I think the best way to curb underage drinking is to impose severe penalties on those who sell and those who purchase it for minors. those selling it should face an immediate suspension of their licence.
"‘Alcohol not only harms the user, but those surrounding the user, including the unborn child, children, family members, and the sufferers of crime, violence and drink-driving accidents: this can be termed environmental alcohol damage or “passive drinking”.’
people are responsible for their own actions. its silly to try and blame something else. whats next, 'passive obesity' ? "someone beside me had a cream bun which made me have 12 myself, now im as fat as a fool. im a victim !!!"
replace alcohol with anything you want in the above quote from the report......
3 comments:
The problem with your post crataegus, is that you are not describing drinking, you are describing drunkeness.
If you want to see the social cost of proscribing alcohol, just look at the mafia in the USA. Prohibition made them what they are and they now infest every corner of society.
Well Crataegus, I do agree with you that attitudes do need to change. Who is buying the alcohol for these youths?
I don't think restricting the availabilty is the answer. Certainly a consideration should be given to curbing TV advertising.
I think the best way to curb underage drinking is to impose severe penalties on those who sell and those who purchase it for minors. those selling it should face an immediate suspension of their licence.
what an absolute load of EU nonsense!
"‘Alcohol not only harms the user, but those surrounding the user, including the unborn child, children, family members, and the sufferers of crime, violence and drink-driving accidents: this can be termed environmental alcohol damage or “passive drinking”.’
people are responsible for their own actions. its silly to try and blame something else. whats next, 'passive obesity' ?
"someone beside me had a cream bun which made me have 12 myself, now im as fat as a fool. im a victim !!!"
replace alcohol with anything you want in the above quote from the report......
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