…a drug that kills nearly 500 Americans every day, and causes more deaths in a typical year than every infectious disease combined. It is manufactured abroad and domestically, then sold by powerful multinational organizations with a vast network of distributors
“The genetic analyses results (showed) that even small amounts of alcohol could increase dementia risk…”
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I won’t attempt to translate that into dollars of lost revenue, but I imagine it’s a considerable sum.
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Basically, it’s not the people who drink zero alcohol who get sick; it’s that people who are sick tend to give up alcohol.
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Lobbying by the alcohol industry is also an issue in Europe. That won’t surprise us in America.
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It’s easy to understand how primates and other animals discovered fermentation — it happens naturally when fruit is left to lay around.
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I’d have to call MUP a blunt instrument. One that does achieve its primary goal– that’s important– but not without possible consequences.
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(per the Surgeon General), “…alcohol directly contributes to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 related deaths each year…”
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…it’s a common dilemma for many people in her situation — do I really have to give up alcohol forever?
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…(a) common tactic is to swear off alcohol entirely for the duration of the Holiday season. Then, having ‘proved’ to oneself (and, hopefully, to others) that you can abstain, you promptly go right back to drinking.
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Of course, we should expect significant opposition from the alcohol industry.
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…efforts to provide treatment for the many victims of rampant alcoholism have been relatively rare, largely volunteer efforts funded by donations rather than much in the way of government support.
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ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
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