Beware: Anti-Liquor Fascists On The March

I hate these people. They are evil and should be resisted by any and all means. Alcohol link to one in 25 deaths

One in 25 deaths across the world are linked to alcohol consumption, Canadian experts have suggested.

Writing in the Lancet, the team from the University of Toronto added that the level of disease linked to drinking affects poorest people the most....

The paper says that, although there have been some benefits of moderate drinking in relation to cardiovascular disease, these are far outweighed by the detrimental effects of alcohol on disease and injury.

In addition to diseases directly caused by drinking, such as liver disorders, a wide range of other conditions such as mouth and throat cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, depression and stroke are linked to drinking.

Drinking patterns do vary around the world, and the researchers point out that most of the adult population - 45% of men and 66% of women - abstain from drinking alcohol for most of them for their life.

Across the Americas, average consumption is 17 units per week, while the Middle East was the lowest at 1.3 units per week.

Not only is this all the basis for evil bullshit, it is also a lie. The numbers do not lie. Let's compare life expectancy for the top five European alcohol consumers with those with the top five Middle East nations in life expectancy (where alcohol is generally banned.)

Germany: 77 years
Ireland: 76 years
Spain: 78 years
Denmark: 76 years
United Kingdom: 77 years

vs.

Israel: 78 years (alcohol legal)
Kuwait: 77 years (alcohol recently legalized)
U.A.E.: 75 years (alcohol mostly legal)
Oman: 73 years (alcohol illegal)
Saudi Arabia: 72 years (alcohol illegal)

In fact a full 30% of countries in the Middle East have rates under 70 years (12% are still in the 50's), while not a single Western European country is below 70.

But facts never stop a fascists drive for power, and this is expressly what this is about.

Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians and chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, said: "This study is a global wake-up call.

"We need an international framework convention for alcohol control, similar to that on tobacco, as soon as possible, to put into practice the evidence-based measures needed to reduce alcohol-related harm.

"These include increasing the price of alcohol, reducing its availability and banning advertising, and the action needs to start now."

See, for fascists like Ian Gilmore, personal choice is never a variable to even be discussed. For such monsters (in the sense of their not having a soul, which seems all too likely) human beings are cattle which the elite have the right, nay duty, to control because said cattle are too stupid to do what the elites want them to do.

These fascists really believe that the common people (i.e. schlubs like you and me) exist not for their own ends, they exist for the well-being of the state. So if you make a decision the fascists don't like they will remove your ability to make that choice. As fascist Don Shenker put it:

Many countries are investigating new ways to cut deaths and disease and reduce the burden on health services by using the price of alcohol to lower consumption.

"As the chief medical officer has identified, putting a stop to the irresponsible sale of low cost alcohol would be an effective step in the right direction.

Hmm...finding any notion of personal autonomy there? Nope. We are all beholden to the state in such a vision. That is their ideology, and that ideology is fascist in intent and execution.

All fascists are evil bastards that deserve to be stopped.

So let's stop them while we still have the democratic processes to do so. God knows they will not allow their anti-alcohol measure to be put to a democratic vote. Once again, sounds pretty fascist doesn't it?