Alcohol is associated with many diseases- pancreatic cancer, cirrhosis,etc and also violence, accidents and social breakdown
If it was a new drug, then it would be banned outright
Is it not time to re-consider its use?
Good afternoon to you Sir,
I do not think that alcohol should be banned. In France, where red wine has a special significance, chronic cardio-vascular diseases are less frequent than in other parts of the world. Like anything else in this world, alcohol should be intake in small quantities.
All the best to you and your family,
Florina Filip-Ciubotaru
If the word alcohol was replaced by tobacco, yes, ban!
And, yes, alcohol probably reduces risk of ischaemic heart disease, but not mortality. So, they die prematurely, but not from ischaemic heart disease!
I m dacord with you. Is dependent by dose and time of consumation. In cases with very long time and high dose consumation, has very big chance for alcoolic hepatitis to ethylic cirrhosis and others health problems.
Thank you.
For you and all authors in Research Gate ALL THE BEST FOR NEW YEAR 2020.
From Dr. sci Zaim Gashi, Prishtina, Republic of Kosova.
it is not necesary to forbide anything. Just general education to the populations and rational use of alcohol. That´s all!
Ban it and then what? Spread the doors wide open for illegal market ? As above mentioned education is crucial to prevent high Alcohol consumption and still later in life people can be faced to other parameters which they can deal with in different ways and sometimes education cannot even solve this. So all in all, education can help but it is not enough alone.
Dear Dr. Mahmoud,
Happy new year. You have visualised the alcohol problem in totality and not only the disease that it causes. If you look at world statistics, staggering amount of money is spent all over the world in diagnosing and treating all alcohol related disorders compared to which the so called "health benefit of moderate (?) drinking" is miniscule. The only problem with banning is sociopolitical as most countries in the world earn a large part of their annual budget from alcohol export or sale inside their own country.
To be very practical, banning will not solve the problem as a large part of the world populace is into the habit. Stringent laws on availability, sale and behaviour might help to reduce it significantly albeit at cost of economy. 1/2 drinks a day will never keep liver disease away for all and will possibly cause early demise in many "but not from ischemic heart disease". Who will define mild, moderate and heavy drinking for all the varieties of beverages available and who will guarantee that 1/2 will not go up to 3/4 or 5/6 per day later? In fact this is exactly what happens in most cases of addiction and abuse.
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