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Re:One in Eight U.S. Adult Deaths Involved Too Much Alcohol by barbazoo on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:51PM (#33440079)
> Policymakers hands are basically tied.

> I would also like to see a decline in Alcohol consumption, much as we saw with smoking..

Exactly and one way to do that is to ban advertising. And that's totally in the power of policy makers I'd say.

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Re:One in Eight U.S. Adult Deaths Involved Too Much Alcohol by t-3 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:09PM (#33441352)
I wouldn't be so sure. There seems with most substances to be a cultural hedonism-puritanism cycle. Alcohol and tobacco have both been through many of these.
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