To what extent - if any - is an alcohol manufacturer responsible for its demographic?

National Post ^ | June 15, 2017 | Calum Marsh

[rickmichaels]

[JamesP81]

To answer the headline question, none whatsoever. Adults are 100% responsible for their own actions. If you drink yourself silly, that’s on no one but you.

[Timpanagos1]

And now Hipsters, thinking it’s ironic, will start drinking that crap and drive the price up.

[linear]

None. Next question?

[Mears]

So Thunderbird is out,eh?

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[ameribbean expat]

“Brights Pale Dry Select does not often appear on lists of recommended wines in magazines. It is scarcely lauded by critics, rarely endorsed by aficionados and regularly overlooked by awards bodies.”

Please provide the names of the critics lauding same. I’ll avoid their future recommendations.

Be responsible for your own life.

[a fool in paradise]

Is Trader Joes taken to task for selling ‘two buck Chuck’ their own notoriously cheap brand?

[Macoozie]

MD 20/20 in a Slurpee.
Get both at 7-11.
And the pinnacle of Bum Wines, Night Train.

=like you never tried it in college . . .

Ramen Noodles and MD 20/20, now THAT”S a meal before a test.

[5Madman2]

Damn

They just can’t get no Play no where:

http://www.bumwine.com/

[W.]

Ha, ha, belch!

[jjotto]

Some of that stuff does not qualify as wine. It’s grain alcohol with water and flavorings. It’s a mixed drink that might kinda taste like wine.

[BenLurkin]

“What’s the price?”

[BenLurkin]

Bottle looks like Thor’s hammer.

[Smedley]

The same degree a food manufacturer is responsible for obese college kids

[stylecouncilor]

Ping

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’ll bet it pairs well with Skittles!

*SMIRK*

[meatloaf]

As long as they stay away from the Everclear, I’m OK with that.

[ichabod1]

NAh, they start with really sour bad tasting wine and add sugar and flavorings to make it palatable. I like Australian ‘goon’ (wine in a bag) just for the name of it.

[jjotto]

Yes. I see the stuff is actually sherry; cheap actual wine with added grain alcohol, sugar and flavorings.

[gnarledmaw]

In the last two sentences of the second to last paragraph the author for all intents and purposes admits to being a typical busybody authoritarian type socialist.

You have socialized medicine and Brights is doing you a favor. Alcoholics drink whatever they can get their hands on. In places like Russia, men regularly poison themselves and wind up blind, brain damaged, or dead due to bad moonshine. Pull Brights off of the market and watch the national health care cost soar.

Really then the question should be, "To what extent - if any - is a busy body journalist responsible for the injuries and deaths his version of socialism causes?"