Alcohol affects more people than smoking? So why no fuss?

Question

Let me add further to this...alcohol is a mind altering drug which turns a normal person into someone else...it produces drunken behaviour, violence, wife battery, drunken driving, noise and yobbish behaviour .....How can the two compare....

Answer 1

Because alcohol fumes do not harm people nearby.
Smoke is breathed in by people who do not smoke, and then they get sick and die.

Answer 2

well said, all the problems with weekend crime resolves around drinking behaviour, it can change a good man/woman into a raving loony, and its not just kids I'm talking about here grow-en adults, but they wont ban it or put stiffer laws on it because it generates so much tax, in my opinion what they should do aye the government, they should give everybody a card and you use that card to purchase alcohol and it should be the recommendation amount for a week, and once you reach the limit you should not get anymore, that would stop the kids drinking, the health problems that associated with booze and cuts the crime rates at weekend, when did smoking ever make people violent and break up family's, there should be a fuss but like i say the tax they make from booze is too much too lose, okay they are gonna lose money from smoking, but you see my point


i have just read some of the other answer and they are saying the smoking ban is good and i agree but what they are also saying is it affects people around them which is also true but alcohol does that as well,what would you choose being brought up with a drinking father, being bottled from a drinking idiot on the street or pub, or getting your child run down by a drunk driver all cause distress, or you could sit beside someone who is having a cig, its out your system in a week with no damage or the damage heals, or you could suffer for life with physiological affect's that alcohol cause's, i know what i would choose i could put up with some cig reek for 5 minutes rather than lose my son or a scar on my head

Answer 3

My pint or short affect only me, not the whole room I am in, unlike tabacco, I can smell someone smoking long before I can see them. I can tell that someone is a smoker, by the smell that comes off them, I don't need to get close, and don't need to have seen them smoking. Mind you I can easily smell the beer in a pub that is across the street. or on the breathe of someone who has been drinking. Absinth really pongs. The real problem with tabacco is the way it harms the health of not just the user, but also all those around them. There was something on radio 4 on friday morning, that placed alcohol in a more harmful category than most banned drugs, though this included social harm.

Answer 4

Bore me.

Smoking not only affects you but also others around you as the effects of passive smoking are widely published. By going into a pub you do not have to drink alcohol, it is a choice made by an individual. But if some selfless swine at the side of you is smoking you can't say...ooh I choose this clean air.... can you???

Alcohol only makes you change if you allow it too (as in drink too much or allow yourself to be consumed by rage etc) if you smoke one cigarette you become addicted and do you know that there are about 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke?
These poisonous chemicals include:

Tar - a mixture of chemicals (formaldehyde, arsenic and cyanide to name a few). About 70% of the tar is left in smokers' lungs when they inhale cigarette smoke and this causes many serious lung diseases.
Carbon Monoxide (CO) - an odourless, tasteless and poisonous gas. It makes breathing more difficult as it combines with the body’s blood which carries oxygen around the body. Oxygen is essential for our bodies to work properly. Up to 15% of a smoker's blood may be carrying CO instead of oxygen, which means the heart has to work harder, which can cause coronary heart disease and circulation problems.
Acetone - widely used as a solvent, for example in nail polish remover.
Ammonia - is found in cleaning fluids.
Arsenic - a deadly poison, used in insecticides.
Formaldehyde - used to preserve dead bodies.
Cadmium - a highly poisonous metal used in batteries.
Shellac - becomes a wood varnish when mixed with a form of alcohol.
Benzene - used as a solvent in fuel and chemical production.
Cyanide - a deadly poison.

But yeah alcohol eh???!!!!

Answer 5

Im sorry?

Are the campaigns to stop binge-drinking, adverts telling people to drink in moderation, adverts to stop drink-driving, and all the media attention on binge-drinking and it's effects not enough for you?

Or would you like to be nannied even more than we already are?

There is only a limited amount of money in the pot. It's upto people to make the choice not to drink, not the government. They can only give the facts.

Answer 6

Sorry but you are wrong, certainly as far as affecting health is concerned. The World Health Organisation WHO, states that smoking is the second major cause of death in the world. (the first is infectious diseases). It is responsible for 10% of all deaths worldwide. They estimate half the people smoking today, 650 million, will be killed by tobacco!

That is why there is so much fuss.

Answer 7

Alcohol is a major problem for some people, my dad died from it at the age of 42 but I do feel there is quite a bit of effort made to try and stop the drinking such as drink driving ads and so on, there are groups out there for people who need the help and it is easy to access them but I think perhaps because drinking isnt like when you smoke out in the street and other people are breathing it in and so you are effecting not only your lungs but theirs to this is why there is more concern, people who have drink problems and it is tough for them I saw my dad struggle for yrs and sat with him as he died from it but his drinking wasnt effecting people out in the street, yes it effected us as a family but not people who didnt know us like smoking can

Answer 8

I don't know how you can say there is no fuss over alcohol! It seems that everytime I read a paper or listen to the news, they are citing the evils of alcohol and driving while drunk, etc.

Answer 9

Alcohol does actually harm people near-by. For instance when some drunk gets into a car and kills or seriously injures someone or when they get into a fight and kill or injure someone. Also it's proof that alcohol is the cause of these injuries, there has never been any conclusive evidence that secondary smoke causes cancer.

Answer 10

Because the government made £13 billion on alcohol last year!

Answer 11

who says there is no fuss? ever heard of things like alcoholics anonymous and mothers against drunk driving? people do care about this just as much - but it's hard to interfere with other people's addictions and vices without getting into some intense drama. especially when it is legal, available, and socially acceptable.