Passive drinking

Wankfest found in the Metro:

Passive drinking' needs to become as big an issue as passive smoking to stop alcohol abuse, health campaigners demanded yesterday.

The harm caused to the innocent by those who drink needs to be brought into sharp relief, says the World Health Organisation. And it is best tackled by penalising all drinkers through higher prices or tougher restrictions on when and where alcohol is available.

'It's the first attempt to limit harm from alcohol globally, from proposals formulated in a single document,' said Vladimir Poznyak, head of substance abuse at the WHO. 'The strongest evidence is for taxation and pricing.'

The report, published in New Scientist magazine, has won backing from the wider medical community.

It proposes focusing on drinkers' innocent victims – in Britain, four in ten domestic abuse cases are fuelled by alcohol and, in Europe, 10,000 people a year die on the roads because of drink.

Alcohol, it says, should be viewed in the same way as tobacco, which has been restricted because of its health effects on others.

Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said: 'Third-party damage from alcohol is much greater – in terms of violence and the damage to unborn children, the first sexual experience and the percentage of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.'

But Tony Jerome, from the Campaign for Real Ale, said: 'The huge majority of responsible adults should not be made to suffer because of the behaviour of a small minority. It's hitting the wrong people.'

....Blah blah blah. Ban this, ban that, tax this, tax that, regulate and fucking micro fucking manage each aspect of our lives.

One has to laugh at the Royal College commenting here, if we are talking of punishing all in order to target the crimes of the few then a better example than booze would be that of MRSA/C.Diff in our hospitals.

Maybe each time that there is a case we should "doc" - excuse the pun- the wages of our medical staff.

Hell better still lets hold the lot of them responsible for the crimes of a certain GP by the name of Harold Shipman. After all he was one of "them" so under their view of things they should be held to account.

Cunts the lot of them. No wonder the Royal Collage gets on so bloody well with our unelected leader, puritanical bastards one and all.

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