Stop Trying To Extend Controls Over Alcohol
Why is it that certain groups always want to raise the age at which something is legal? Now some doctors want to raise the age at which alcohol can be bought in off-licences and supermarkets to 21 - but leave the current age restriction of 18 in pubs.
This is based on the idea that there is an “alarming rise in teenage binge drinking” and that this would prevent it. Well, I’m sorry, but it wouldn’t, and won’t. Besides from the confusing and mixed signals that such a policy would send out, there is also the impracticality of enforcing it. Would it be illegal for an under-21 to drink alcohol bought from an off-licence or supermarket, for example? How could you tell whether an eighteen ear old had bought alcohol themselves, or had it bought for them?
Beyond the fact that it is none of any doctor’s business whether or not people binge drink - we know it can be bad, you don’t need to keep telling us - it is a stupid idea. It just pisses me off when anyone wants to extend the control over what people can do to themselves. If someone wants to cause themselves liver damage through drinking way too much, or lung cancer through smoking too much, fine. That’s their prerogative.
Quite frankly, anyone who supports this sort of thing is as think as two short planks - and that’s being generous.
Source: The Telegraph
This entry is filed under Alcohol, Interference, Stupidity. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
-
No Comments
Post your comment