My drinking buddy of years ago, a non-smoker, was a loud campaigner of smoker's rights on the grounds that "Once they've stopped you smokers, they'll be after us drinkers next."
I see the NHS has joined the Police is saying alcohol is their biggest financial burden (has smoking stopped causing cancer then?) This is always a fallacious argument: if you give up all bad things you will still need medication for a dicky chest / heart / other organs / senility when you are old.
The anti-alcohol campaign is indeed being run in much the same way as the anti-smoking campaign was run. It is banned in public places, they say we drink less and less often and now we should be using pub measures at home, FFS! The figures on "road-related deaths involving alcohol" are stated as drink-driving statistics so that sober drivers & drunk pedestrian incidents look like it is drivers causing it all as an attempt to get the blood alcohol level down to zero. (Despite there still being some controversy as to what effect this would have.)
This is despite the whole 'units' scam being a load of rubbish that was made up and has since been pulled to bits.
So, once alcohol has been banned (and the entire industry closed down because it is an export industry and we don't do them any more), what will they have us for next? Salt? Sugar? Fats? Or will they just being in a Body Weight Tax?
I see the NHS has joined the Police is saying alcohol is their biggest financial burden (has smoking stopped causing cancer then?) This is always a fallacious argument: if you give up all bad things you will still need medication for a dicky chest / heart / other organs / senility when you are old.
The anti-alcohol campaign is indeed being run in much the same way as the anti-smoking campaign was run. It is banned in public places, they say we drink less and less often and now we should be using pub measures at home, FFS! The figures on "road-related deaths involving alcohol" are stated as drink-driving statistics so that sober drivers & drunk pedestrian incidents look like it is drivers causing it all as an attempt to get the blood alcohol level down to zero. (Despite there still being some controversy as to what effect this would have.)
This is despite the whole 'units' scam being a load of rubbish that was made up and has since been pulled to bits.
So, once alcohol has been banned (and the entire industry closed down because it is an export industry and we don't do them any more), what will they have us for next? Salt? Sugar? Fats? Or will they just being in a Body Weight Tax?
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