Surgeon General Calls on Americans to Face Facts About Drinking

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[B Knotts]

Where is the Surgeon General in the Constitution?

[Bikers4Bush]

Shut up and get me a beer.

[michigander]

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."

Jack Handy

[Undocumented]

If they offer FREE BEER, they will have a better turnout.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Now boys, Nanny knows what's best for you.

Ideologically fueled junk science has proven that when you combine the deaths caused by alcohol, smoking, red meat, obesity, apple pie, pork rinds and lack of excercise each year, all of us are dead several times.

There is no Constitution when The Public Health is in question. This is the way that statist tyranny is entering our lives every day. Now just relax . . . this will only take a minute.

[P.O.E.]

Woo Hoo! It's Thirsty Thursday!

[68skylark]

I've had some close calls on the highway, including one close call where a young wife and monther who was driving behind me was killed by a drunk going the wrong way on an interstate.

So in some ways, I like the idea of the government trying to curtail this kind of menace. On the other hand, any good effort can also get out of bounds -- I really don't want government influence over what people do at home.

[bassmaner]

Forty-one percent of traffic crashes, the leading cause of death for Americans through age 34, are alcohol-related, according to NHTSA.

Junk science and bogus statistics, brought to you by power-hungry federal bureaucrats and their harpy allies at MADD. The ultimate aim of this sanctimony is the re-imposition of Prohibition, not all at once but drip by drip.

Click here, here, and here for the real agendas of NHTSA and MADD.

[wjcsux]

I face the facts every day. I love good beer!

[wjcsux]

Here is a great beer from Spain. I may give it up now that the Spanish are starting to act French-like.

[an amused spectator]

Translation, in four words or less:

Show Me The Money

[TXBSAFH]

Take two pints of lager and call me in the morning.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Ironic, alcohol has killed more people, destroyed more families and lives than any drug *ever*. Yet it's legal.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

"My goal is to prevent alcohol-related traffic crashes from occurring, and to reduce the risk of injury rather than continually treat the consequences"

Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, cited for drunken-driving back in February.

[Map Kernow]

1) Don't drink to excess.

2) Don't drink and drive.

3) Don't drink while operating heavy machinery.

4) "Don't come home a-drinkin' with lovin' on yo'r mind."

Those rules should suffice.

[freedomlover]

We need safer bottles and safer glasses.

[Rytwyng]

Nag nag nag....

[joesnuffy]

Bad things happen in life.. do we want to trade freedom for government intervention limiting those freedoms to provide us with the 'illusion' of safety?...

Regardless of trying to convince us of the contrary providing us with security and safety is something the govt. is not only not capable of doing..but has no business trying in the first place...

Trading liberty for the illusion of security and safety is how free societies become slave societies...in the first place
imo

[Arkinsaw]

Someday soon, the only thing left to tax out of existence will be safety.