Comments on: Booze Linked To 1 In 25 Deaths Worldwide

Alcohol Must Be Viewed More Like Tobacco, Study Concludes

[AttentionDeficit]

legalize weed and make the alcohol pushers compete with a more pleasant, less toxic drug

[xlib]

Leads you to the munchies.

[AJMarine12]

Everyone knows that tobacco and alcohol is bad for you, and they are always telling us how many people die from using them, but no one will make them illegal, but they want to make pot illegal; make them all legal or illegal.......our government is so stupid.

[nasadawg]

This is just BS!!! First they go after my cig's. Well, a lot of people quit smoking - the money dried up and now they will go after my beer!! Boy, I can't wait to vote again. I am keeping a list. They can put out all the number and figures all they want. All most all are garbage. funny how the story starts as if something was happening around the would, but really it's about taking more of what we have left.

What does FREEDOM Mean?

[rbbowser]

A couple of things -

(1) If you start with a bisas, you will prove your point. I noticed the lead investigator is from an addiciton treatment center.

(2) Assuming a link between consumption of something and behavior has not a lot to do with attributing death to that substance. Lots of people die in car accidents. I think we could easily show that people who had just eaten food then died in car accideents. This does not mean, the food caused the accident. The linkage betwwen aloohol and car accidents is based on this sort of analysis.

(3) When you include a third factor, actions from car detaths, which is one of the most dangerous elements of modern society, you start to confuse the underlying impact of the substance on your body.

(4) Substances also have benefits. You really have to look at the whole picture. For instance, most of the people in these alcholo laden countries (Europe, US) live far longer then people in countried like India or the MIddle East.

(4) Tobacco is a substance that causes disease directly, not indirectly via subsquent actions. Alchol, in moderation, does not cause liver failure etc. The reserach points to an overall positive benefit.

I may have to have a drink right now to just deal with this level of bias and/or lazy thinking in this research.

[jseymouriii]

From the first breath you take ... everything you come in contact with will eventually kill you. So the worst we can do for our bodies is breath and eat. Each will eventually kill us. So lets put a stop to these vises as well.

[lawabiding_usa]

I find this hysterical. First, we had to ban smoking in the US because it was 'directly responsible' for 30% of all cancer deaths -- and cancer is responsible for 30% of all deaths worldwide. (so smoking is responsible for 9% of deaths). It's an EMERGENCY -- we MUST BAN INDOOR SMOKING NOW!" (even if you own your own place & you smoke! Tragic/funny how the economy crumbled within a couple years of that nationwide ban everywhere it was enacted. (Remember that sub prime mortgages, the 'usually named' culprit for our current recession have been around for many more years than the smoking ban!). I can just hear all the hypocrites out there now -- "oh, your breath smells like a booze bottle, you stink" "Your drinking is dangerous to MY LIFE". And of course, everyone's favorite: "For the SAKE OF THE CHILDREN alcohol must be banned!"

I am SO grateful to our big brother society for making our lives safe & boring and let's all rally around one more reason to stay home & sink our economy...

[displeased]

So why not publish these articles? Don't people need to be informed of the consequences of their behavior, whether it's drinking too much alcohol or eating too much broccoli? There are a lot of idiots out there.

[dartplayer501]

Don't worry, tomorrow the French Journale de Medicin will publish an article that three glasses of red wine per day will allow you to live 4% longer.

[ajapierce]

They need to stop these retarded arcticles. You can have health related problems to drinking too many beverages with extra sugar in them.

You can die of Tanic Acid posioning from drinking more then 12 cups of tea a day.

If you want to know the secret to good health, the words you are looking for are "Everything in Moderation".

[displeased]

So why not publish these articles? Don't people need to be informed of the consequences of their behavior, whether it's drinking too much alcohol or eating too much broccoli? There are a lot of idiots out there.

[ToolMangler1]

That must be some "Strong" Tea, I consume around 1/2 gal of Iced Tea daily and have done so for more than 60 years, and The Docs say that Tea is not hurting me when I tell them that.

[erb0087]

"In a series of articles published in The Lancet, alcohol is linked to behavioral deaths, like violent injuries, as well as medical conditions like cardiovascular disease, cancer and liver disorders like cirrhosis."
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Alcohol consumption is very closely related to firearm homicides in the United States.

Combine that with the drunk driving fatalities, and alcohol consumption is bad news.

[ToolMangler1]

One bottle of Alcohol can kill hundreds (Bus, train, Plane accidents and quarrels). I never saw a single pack of cigarettes kill anybody that smoked it, not even by "second hand smoke" and its getting to where "cell phone use and texting while driving" is close to taking second place in the accidental death catagory......

[xlib]

Hey, here's a thought-make cell phones illegal. Yea, that's the ticket, no cell phones, no texting.
How about for just once we put the responsibility where it belongs, in the hands of those who abuse alcohol, drugs, driving while under the influence, etc, etc.
This sounds like another ploy to take over even more of our lives.
We are responsible for our own actions or inactions.
Get a set, folks.

[dnamj]

I wonder how many deaths are due to NOT drinking? And just how do they link the deaths? The Lancet is getting less and less credible.

[texanforlogi]

Alcohol = 1 in 25 deaths worldwide
Marijuana = 0 deaths worldwide
Now which "drug" should we be waging war on?

[ToolMangler1]

Marijuana causes thousands of deaths each month in Mexico and most of those never use it.

[IrishWench01]

Okay, lets outlaw alcohol now! Keep all the people alive. Because we have so much room on this planet, we must take everything away from people that might kill them. No free will, just more living bodies taking up space and resources and making themselves available fodder for all of the wars constantly raging.

[trapbreaking]

"Of course, we will not prohibit alcohol, but we should make it more expensive so it's consumed in smaller quantities and in quantities which are actually not as detrimental for health.""

LOL, tho old tax it to death ploy.

[AJMarine12]

Everyone knows that tobacco and alcohol is bad for you, and they are always telling us how many people die from using them, but no one will make them illegal, but they want to make pot illegal; make them all legal or illegal.......our government is so stupid.