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Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by squigz on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @01:17PM (#47851675)
> Why does everyone on HN seem to have a hate boner for alcohol? The main problem there is car culture, not the alcohol.

I don't really see how car culture has anything to do with stuff like domestic violence, child abuse, or various other side-effects of alcohol culture.

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Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by csnover on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @03:47PM (#47853627)
As with the cars, those are not alcohol issues, they are violence issues. Whether a drunk person turns to saccharine displays of affection or destructive acts of violence is likely driven by cultural norms and the underlying conditions of their lives.[0] Blaming alcohol for violence is akin to blaming the internet for increases in fraud.

[0] https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483331096.n184

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Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by frm88 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @03:40AM (#47860347)
Globally, 38% of violent deaths are alcohol-related 81% of male perpetrators of intimate partner violence in England and Wales test positive for alcohol at arrest

https://worldmetrics.org/alcohol-violence-statistics/

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