Re:Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol
by gozur88 on Friday November 10, 2017 @12:33AM
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People accept that the government should regulate what other people drink and smoke. The smoking prohibitions didn't come into effect until the number of smokers was small enough they couldn't stop them, and alcohol prohibition was always the cause of teetotalers and ex-alcoholics.
Re:Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol
by chiefalchemist on Friday November 10, 2017 @06:40AM
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Yes. But as things are going it's going to be a long time before over weight ppl are the minority. It's also not politically correct to talk about such things.
Thanks Oprah.
Re:Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol
by chiefalchemist on Friday November 10, 2017 @06:37AM
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Agreed. We've normalized the abnormal. Furthermore, it's not PC to mention, even in passing, that someone is hurting themselves, and in a social sense others as well.
Long to short...we want healthcare as a right, but zero responsibility related to that right (i.e., personal health). This isn't working out well.
There's plenty of evidence that taxing a product reduces demand for that product
> and most people aren't interested in a government that tries to dictate what they should eat.
That's true, but it just underscores the ancestor comment: Social acceptance can make most any evil the norm. People accept that the government should regulate what we drink and smoke, but not what we eat - this is partly due to cultural acceptance of obesity