Another thing that has been irritating me and is linked to my rant about health zealots is the hysteria over alcohol abuse. Now I'm not denying there's an alcohol problem in this country, you only have to go down the Bigg Market to see that, but it's the terminology and preaching that gets to me.
If you have more than four drinks in an evening it is medically considered a binge. You are officially a binge drinker. How on Earth is that fair and more importantly, accurate? Of course there's going to be a drinking epidemic if you consider a binge to be such a stupidly low amount of alcohol. All it does is feed the frenzy whipped up by sensationalist rags like the Daily Mail where they say the entire youth of the nation is stuck in an alcoholic stupor and we're all doomed.
What's the government's answer to this? Slap ever growing taxes on alcohol. Smart one, instead of targeting actual alcohol abuse they just decide to punish all drinkers. Not just drinkers but also the many micro-breweries and local pubs that are being wiped out by huge taxes. Genius.
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