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Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by tasha0663 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:43AM (#30010272)
The advocacy tips at the end of the brief are shockingly anti-fun.
Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by heyitsguay on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:50AM (#30010369)
These ones?

> Cost-effective interventions to reduce alcohol consumption include strengthening restrictions on alcohol availability, enforcing bans on alcohol advertising, and facilitating access to screening and treatment.

"Restrictions on alcohol availability" could be anti-fun if implemented in the extreme (hopefully we've learned prohibition doesn't work), the other two are pretty standard.

Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by slackfan on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:15PM (#30011715)
>hopefully we've learned prohibition doesn't work

As a world, we absolutely have not. And any insane policy will be backed up by very reasonable scientific evidence.

Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by the_only_law on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:59AM (#30010542)
I am kinda curious what they mean by that? Would I no longer be able to get beer at the gas station or something?
Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by lkbm on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:51AM (#30010386)
Which ones? They say to regulate who can sell alcohol, raise prices/taxes, raise the drinking age, limit advertising, add prominent warnings...I guess those first few are arguably "anti-fun", but they don't seem especially so.
Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by malfist on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:58AM (#30010535)
Speed limits are also anti-fun.

Being anti-fun isn't an argument against regulation

Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by slackfan on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:21PM (#30011777)
Speed limits are primarily environmental regulation and have little to nothing to do with safety. By extention, they happen to be anti-fun.

The Autobahn is still not a 24/7 disaster zone of dead bodies and scrapped cars last time I checked.

Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by malfist on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:25PM (#30011830)
Sure, interstate speedlimits are somewhat about gas mileage. But I'm going to need some citation from you that a 25mph speedlimit in a residential area is about environmental impacts and not safety.

Sure the autobahn isn't a meat grinder, but there's a difference between safe and unsafe, and unsafe doesn't mean everyone dies.

Regardless, doesn't matter if the regulation is for safety or environmental protection, being "anti-fun" isn't an argument against them.

Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by slackfan on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:37PM (#30012010)
https://ww2.motorists.org/issues/speed-limits/truth/#:~:text....

well, you can take it up with the National Motorists' Association, they have the stats.

Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by malfist on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:42PM (#30013691)
I'm sorry, but that's an opinion piece written by a very biased source. This organization was founded to oppose the 55mph speedlimit back in the 80s and since then have moved on to things like opposing drunk driving laws. Sure they claim all kinds of stats in that blog you linked, but they provide no sources for those stats.