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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.

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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.

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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?
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