What do you think?

Question

This is worth giving up five points! Some one keeps bleeping out my answers about alcohol, and I heard today that 3 out of 5 people have a problem with drinking! It has ruined so many families, does anyone else think it should be banned like smoking? Come on and tell the truth! What do you think?

Answer 1

This post sound like a trial hearing....I think Alcohol should have a say in whether it should get banned or not:

Alcohol says:
I can make anybody pretty
I can make you believe any lie
I can make you pick a fight with somebody twice your size. . .

Well I've been known to cause a few breakups
and I've been known to cause a few births
I can make you new friends or get you fired from work.

And since the day I left Milwaukee,Lyncheburg, Bourbon, France
Been makin the bars, with lots of big money and helpin white people dance.
I got you in trouble in high school and college now that was a ball.
You had some of the best times, you'll never remember with me. Alcohol! Alcohol!

I got blamed at your wedding reception for your best man's emberrasing speech.
And also for those naked pictures of you at the beach.
I've influenced kings and world leaders!
I helped Hemingway write like he did,
and I`ll bet you a drink or two that I can make you
put that lampshade on your head . .

And since the day I left Milwaukee, Lyncheburg, Bourbon, France
Been makin a fool out of folks just like you,
and helpin white people dance.

I am MEDICINE and I am POISON!
I can help you UP or make you FALL!
You had some of the best times, you'll never remember with me. Alcohol! Alcohol!

BANNED THE PEOPLE THAT DRINK ALCOHOL IRRESPONSIBLY!

Answer 2

In Ayrshire alcohol has been banned in open public places, you can't have a drink sitting in a picnic area etc, has helped a little, but hasn't solved anything.

The trouble is the cost of alcohol now, there are so many cheap brands available that people are able to go out with a tenner and get absolutely wasted. Unfortunately this behaviour then continues to repeat and then addictions can start.

I've witnessed a close family member getting addicted to alcohol and it isn't fun. It pretty much ruined my childhood, but everything has sorted itself out now thankfully.

I don't think banning alcohol is a solution, but banning the cheap crap and all the 2 for 1 offers etc, and promote repsonsible drinking should be implimented.

Answer 3

I don't believe that statistic! It doesn't sound reliable, unless they took a poll in an AA meeting. No, alcohol shouldn't be banned. Plenty of people use it sensibly. Many things are beneficial in small amounts, but shouldn't be taken in excess, even things like lettuce!

What they should do is allow things, including alcohol, and trust us, but then come down hard on those who abuse (such as drink-drivers). Are you going to ban kitchen knives just because some people carry them?

Personally, I think the ban on smoking in public places went too far. I can't see why pubs shouldn't have a room for smokers.

I can think of things I would like to see banned - I'm very concerned about the current wave of so-called 'torture porn' films brutalising society, especially when children end up seeing them. A friend of my son's was allowed by his parents to see the DVD Hostel 1. He's 13, was scared witless and now has to sleep with the light on.

So it's up to us, as individuals, to use our common sense and self-restraint. Yes, I agree with you that alcohol does ruin families, and those people need help, but they are not the norm - don't penalise the vast majority who use alcohol sensibly.

Answer 4

This country is in a terrible struggle between two mindsets:

1. The love of freedom
2. The desire to feel secure

I tend to vote to treat people like grown ups, until they prove that they cannot handle the responsibility and the respect. I am never one to take something away from EVERYONE, because some may abuse it. Put another way, my bias is for freedom; so, no, I am not taking away people's rights to drink, to be stupid, and even to break the law. What's the alternative? A police state?

As I see it, politicians tend to crap all over my love of freedom, because of their own love of power. So, there is a good chance that against my better judgement alcohol will indeed someday be banned, or more likely, increasingly heavily taxed. That way, the politician still get their power fix AND they satisfy their other love, the love of money.

Answer 5

Smoking hasn't been banned - only its use in public. If you banned alcohol consumption in public the unemployment figures would be seriously high.

They banned alcohol in America in the 1920's. They called it prohibition and it brought about Gangsterism which they still have problems with.

You could stop a lot of the alcohol related problems in one fell swoop by banning alcopops, or booze for kids.

Banning alcohol in general is not a good idea. The damage is done by people to themselves and each other. Blaming the product is like blaming ice for the Titanic sinking.

Answer 6

Do you really think that banning something will stop its use? It may not be legally available but the black market trade will thrive.Smoking has been reduced because people have become aware of its ills....unless the people really want to stop drinking to death , the only ray of hope is the Alcoholics Anonymous.....banning alcohol will only lead to bootlegging.

I think we should teach our children about the evils of drinking in school so that they keep away from it when they grow up...

Answer 7

I greatly admire LDS teens who uphold their standards. I've been raised in the LDS Church all my life, so I was once an LDS teenager myself. I didn't grow up in Utah or any other Mormon-populated area. I was raised in a predominantly Jewish town on the East Coast and only me and FOUR other people in my ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL were active members of the Church. I took great pride in being an LDS minority because it gave me the opportunity to set an example for those around me and stand as a witness of God. I admire your commitment and dedication to the true Gospel even when you're surrounded by influences that might not conform to your standards. I can't emphasize strongly enough how important it is to be an example to others of what it truly means to be a Latter-Day Saint. Non-members are watching us all the time and we must NEVER underestimate the influence our actions have on them. As it says in the book of Matthew, "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick and it giveth light unto all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before man that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven."

Answer 8

Yeah, I was about to ask that question. How come they keep tightening the noose around the tobacco industry's neck while alcoholic beverages makers roam free ?? We all know alcohol is a million times worse than smoking. We all know the havoc that drunk drivers wreak on others. We also know the huge loss they cause. That's only the material aspect of it. Now, when it comes to the distruction that alcohol/ics cause to their own families, I guess it's needless to ..... Hmmm, I wonder why.

Answer 9

I personally think we should take a good look at the statistics of what booze does to people and the funding for the NHS, kids as young as 8 have drink problems in this country, they have been allowed to drink alcohol at parties, barbecues and just for the hell of it because their parents though it ok, we have binge drinkers amongst our teenagers, alcoholics galore and people needing rehab for their addiction, I don't think smoking is to blame for the NHS problems , drinking causes just as many illnesses, smokers don't go home and hit their partners and kids because of their addiction, drunks do..

Answer 10

Most towns allready ban alcohol in the town centres and on the streets.
If they banned it, people would just drink at home, and just think of the jobs that would be lost, if you shut the pubs.