Indiscriminate liquor
consumption
is bad
It is necessary to
bring about prohibition of intoxicating drinks and drugs except those for
medicinal purposes. While many
women’s groups support prohibition, the political will to crack down on illicit
liquor is weak just because the government believes that any ban on liquor
sales will necessarily have to co-exist with a spurt in bootlegging and illicit
distillation.
In India prohibition
has led to loss of lives in hooch tragedies. Now people arguing for prohibition
must realize that they are arguing from a purely moral standpoint. They want to
ban alcohol because they think it is bad. The fact is that alcohol consumption
is a personal choice and there is nothing with it so long as it is not done to
excess.
The liquor
business is both good and bad. Firstly it is good as it generates huge income
for Government as well as the middle men with less effort. The profits are high
when compared to any other trade. But it’s bad due to its ill effects on human
body if taken without control.
Total prohibition
of liquor is not a solution of our country. If government bans any type of
intoxicant things then its seller chooses another way to sell this kind of
things, resulting in bootlegging. To prevent liquor consumption, the best thing
to do is create awareness about ill-effect of liquor and other drugs. Today, people
booze not much because of pleasure and enjoyment but because of monetary and
family tensions. It is an escape route for daily problems and then turns into a
habit-formation. For people engaged in physical work, in today's high cost of
living, the need to work beyond their physical capacity becomes imperative. The
intake of insufficient diet is supplemented by boozing, in a hope to go to
sleep on empty stomach. The medical fraternity can instead guide people to go
in for supplementary B-complex, multi-vitamin tablets and the Government should
make it available cheaper. It should help people to keep away from liquor.
Worldwide
experience is against total ban on alcohol. While consuming alcohol focus
should be on quality control, consumption control, and healthcare. Perhaps an
old system of individually bought permits, hours of pub/bar operation, and
sellers' liability in crime committed under the influence of alcohol will help.
However, hotels, bars, night clubs, and heavy drinkers will fight alcohol
controls. Women and children are country's best bet on controlling alcohol
abuse. It takes at least a generation to change attitudes to smoking and
aclohol abuse.
From time
immemorial human beings have exhorted to consumption of alcohol and other
substances in order to extricate themselves from boredom, anxiety, stress,
sickness, and more often to indulge in pleasures of the body and exotic sexual
perversion. Numerous organisations have undertaken research on the disastrous
effects of alcohol among the youth of today's modern society. The studies
reveal a trend towards a form of decadence and social consequences that far
outweigh any political or monetary gain for any government. It is an absolute
moral obligation that society and government protect its members from
substances that will corrode the fabric of community development and progress
through encouraging liquor consumption. Western society is battling this evil
that has only caused family violence and degradation of values.
It is very clear
that the common people have no will power not to drink liquor. The liquor is
not sold free of cost. If the people have will power not to drink liquor,
then there will be no taker for the liquor and ultimately it will lead to
closure of liquor shops.
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