Not to say I told you so, but...

[caddyman]

Remember when the smoking ban came in and I said that now the health Nazis had finally pinned that one down, they would be after alcohol next?

Remember when no-one believed me, because 'drinking is too deeply embedded' in the culture?

Well, here's the latest salvo: booze gives you cancer.

See, they take their time with these things. A generation or so is what campaigns of this sort are prepared to spend getting their way. They will probably run this one in tandem with fat/salt reduction programmes just to keep us off balance.

Comments

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

I do remember. I still hold the views I held before. This is NOT news, none of this is new. So they mention cancer a bit more prominantly in their bunf, big deal. So the put drinking laws back to how they were pre-Labour, that's not a big change it's how we lived before. So they put limits on supermarkets and cheap booze, any action will be small and limited thanks to the power of the big shops and they'll target hight strength lager, cider and the relly insane cheapo deals, they'll mainly avoid anything swilled by the 'middle classes'. That's the point I made before and stand by completely, they'll only attack (if anything) the favourite drinks of 'The Chavs'.

I fail to see just what has changed.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

It's not news: it's a continuing and heightening campaign.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

and it started WAY before the drink driving laws. I remember the change of attitude beginning when I was small - in the 1950s - and by the time I was nearly old enough to drink the tutting and frowns were becoming more noticeable.
Nanny doesn't like it when we don't conform

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Drinking isn't not conforming quite the opposite. Attitudes changing, taht's fine, changing through education ditto there's a difference between that and *forced* change.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Cider??? -sob-

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

As I found out recently, as reported in Science Daily, "Stroke Risk Temporarily Increases for an Hour After Drinking Alcohol, Study Finds". (So all the more reason to ban alcohol ...) I'm taking all this with a pinch of salt!

[fen-wolfchile.livejournal.com]

Well if you read the daily fail you believe that we're all going to be under muslim law within ten years so booze is going to get banned anyway :)

[paribach.livejournal.com]

Good dispatch and this enter helped me alot in my college assignement. Gratefulness you on your information.

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

Do you meant that public health policy changes with new information?

Say it isn't so.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

You are welcome Paribach, I think