Double drink prices, urges doctors -

The Telegraph - UK ^ | March 5, 2004 | Celia Hall

[CathyRyan]

If I knew now what I knew then I would not drink as much....

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Doctors called yesterday for the price of alcohol to be almost doubled in an attempt to reduce the harm caused by excessive drinking.

And do they agree with halving the price of doctors to promote good health?

[Old Professer]

The doctors have called for the price of beer, wine and spirits to be increased to 1970 levels. In relative terms alcohol was nearly twice as expensive 30 years ago, they say.

Budweiser was $1.25 a 6-pack in 1970; what is it today?

[Shryke]

FAT CHANCE. Mention health or kids, and people will turn in their mother.

I completely understand your cynicism. That said, I am not that cynical at the moment. I think the times, they are a changin' (for the better, obviously).

[freeeee]

Brockton is a stye compared to the Cape (or pretty much anything else). What part of the Cape do you think is so bad?

[Mears]

Hmmm,1970. Isn't that about the time that the dangers of smoking were starting to be publicised?

Smoking rates started to go down and drinking rates started to go up.

Well they are getting what they wanted,a bunch of smoke-free drunks.

[Damagro]

Go ahead and double the price. You won't be doing the same thing you did to me on smokes. I already make my own beer lol

[Gabz]

Well they are getting what they wanted,a bunch of smoke-free drunks.

ROFLMAO!!!!!

[Publius6961]

As a smoker, I have been patiently waiting for this. Just the second in a long string of inevitable "...abuses and usurpations..." by a nanny government confident in the helplessness of its subjects.

First they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out –
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
And I did not speak out –
Because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out –
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me –

And there was no-one left To speak out for me. ---Pastor Niemöller, 1938

Enjoy.

[Publius6961]

Why don't the morons just institute a total ban on booze?

What? And kill the cash cow? This is a taxing gambit, as you well know...

[Publius6961]

Promise?

[Publius6961]

Seig Heil!

[metesky]

Check out the armed guards at the North St. Burger King in Hyannis. Several drive-by shootings there.

It all started with Mickey the Dukes Section 8 relocation program.

Then the Cape Cod Commission and all their rules and regs made living there almost impossible.

And now you can't even smoke in the great mid-Cape bars and saloons!

I still go down a couple of times a year when some of the boys need my construction expertise, but after a week or so I beat feet like you read about.

[Publius6961]

BTW - kiss my ass

An inspired choice!
That name fits your personality perfectly!

[Damagro]

Alcohol is a vice - like gambling - which the internet and gasoline are niether.

Alcohol is a pleasure , just like the internet. Gambling is a leisure activity, gasoline is a comodity. Tax is tax, and is a device for libs to control other peoples actions. Maybe your ox isn't being gored by an alcohol tax, but it hits everyone in the long run

[freeeee]

It all started with Mickey the Dukes Section 8 relocation program.

Of course. This is Mass after all, they could screw up anything.

And now you can't even smoke in the great mid-Cape bars and saloons!

I know. And no smoking in the bars in Southie. Southie!?

[Mamzelle]

I know what's really going on here...Doctors are taking revenge on lawyers!

[cyborg]

Doesn't take much to make homebrew.

[Damagro]

So long as government pays for medical expenses,


The government pays for medical expenses? The government doesn't have any money. You're barking up the lib tree with that thinking. If you're worried about government healthcare costs, it makes more sense to get the government out of healtcare than taxing paying customers at the bar

[metesky]

Every time I think of no smoking in Southie, I think of the BPD's old Flying Squad charging into the now defunct Rabbit Inn during the bussing thing and getting their asses kicked by the IRA boyos.

Bwahahahaha!