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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And yet I go to the beach once a summer and from my spot under an umbrella I watch a wave of humanity that is obese and sunburned and still standing out in the sun all day with their kids looking the same.

I don’t know OP.  Alcohol is just one thing.  Humans don’t always do the “right” things.  Why focus on alcohol is my question.  How do you even pick that out as the issue to get indignant about.  [/quote]

Of course humans don't always do the right things, but i don't understand your point.

There are fat people getting sunburned at the beach... and we all know that obesity is REALLY bad for you and seriously shortens your lifespan, and the costs of diabetes and poor obesity-related health cost us all a lot of money! And we all know that being outside in the sun without serious sun protection DOES lead to skin cancer! Those are BAD things!

Nobody is saying the world doesn't have any problems except for alcohol-linked cancer! And more than one thing can be problematic at the same time! And sometimes the problems can be connected—alcohol consumption is definitely a contributing factor for obesity in a lot of Americans!

Why focus on alcohol in particular? Well, because we now have new research showing there are genuine and serious health risks we didn't previously know about! That's like asking why do you sit under an umbrella at the beach—why are you focusing on protecting yourself from UV rays? Because (I presume) it's something you know is important to do for your own health.

How do we focus on that to get indignant about? Well, I don't think anyone except for the booze hounds arguing that no one can tell them to stop drinking is indignant, but we choose it because there's new research about it. We've learned something new, so now it's time to think about what it means!

No one is suggesting that we should drop all our concern about other things like obesity, skin cancer, tobacco, etc., we're just saying now that we know more about the risks, it's time people start thinking about it. [/quote]

Tome poster(s), please touch grass[/quote]

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