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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Over the years the government has undoubtedly stepped up it's anti-smoking campaign culminating in the ban for smoking in public.
Many people have given up recently.
The switch now seems to have been made to increase awareness of the health risks connected with alcohol abuse.
2 glasses of wine a day it would seems can cause cancer and many other illnesses or bad health.
So at last, the question, do you think the government will increase the campaign in the future and try for bans on outdoor drinking, more regulations covering the purchase of alcohol etc
Is it a good thing that we are being made aware of the health aspects of drinking.
Will it affect the way you drink or the quantity you drink.
Do you think the government just wants to control your fun |
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By *-and-KCouple
over a year ago
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All I can say really is, if you look at tv ads for health, public service ads. We have always had them, from Claude riding his cycle and doing the Highway Code, down to today's offerings.
They are there for two reasons, one governments are becoming more and more caught up in the nanny state culture as they are pressed by stupid doogood-ers. Scientists coming up with these fantastic claims because they want more money to carry on research from the governments. Then secondly the government have huge swathes of public sector employees actually coming up with all this bullshit in the first place.
Just look at the fiasco over global warming, says it all. The figures the calculations were based on were falsified by the university responsible so they could gain further funding. Trouble is it started a world wide ball rolling that every had to be a part of, it got out of hand. Now they are backtracking fast on it all. Thats not to say global warming isn't happening, they just haven't found the true cause yet, it certainly isn't all man made stuff. |
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By *-and-KCouple
over a year ago
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Never answered the actual question  if it were really true don't you think hospital oncology units would be overflowing with drinkers as well as smokers and the just plain unfortunate of society who have just contracted cancer?
Let me put it this way....
Go into hospital with throat cancer. answer the docs questions, one of which will be do you drink? you answer yes. All those questions are then inputted to the national database for performance reviews.
One of those public employees I mentioned in the last post collates all the figures and sees he has 100 throat cancers and all the patients said they drink.
Easy peasy, they suddenly have a connection, 100 people with cancer who drink. Drinking causes cancer!!
Nothing scientific about it at all, just people studying data and coming up with the wrong answers. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Over the years the government has undoubtedly stepped up it's anti-smoking campaign culminating in the ban for smoking in public.
Many people have given up recently.
The switch now seems to have been made to increase awareness of the health risks connected with alcohol abuse.
2 glasses of wine a day it would seems can cause cancer and many other illnesses or bad health.
So at last, the question, do you think the government will increase the campaign in the future and try for bans on outdoor drinking, more regulations covering the purchase of alcohol etc
Is it a good thing that we are being made aware of the health aspects of drinking.
Will it affect the way you drink or the quantity you drink.
Do you think the government just wants to control your fun "
What many people who are educated forget is that there are many who are less endowed with intelligence and knowledge. If you poled certain areas in the UK you would find that they were unaware in many cases how harmful alcohol can be. Is it a waste of tax payers money to advertise? Well I would assume its been paid for by duty and excise revenue.
I do not think the govt wants to limit your fun but limit the negative effects so called fun has on the rest of society. Passive smoking for one, smoking related illnesses being a double figure percentage of the NHS’s work load and also the unsocial effects binge drinking has on the sober public in town centres on a Saturday night. I think its sensibility rather than control personally.
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