Should Alcohol be banned?

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!

Good morning,

You are very much right.

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!

No more than two alcoholic drinks a day for prevetion of Liver Disease!

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.

In modérate amounts can be beneficial for health preservativos

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.

The dry law in USA many years ago was a disaster expiren

Alcohol consumed is a source of various and serious problems. First of all, many road accidents, including fatal ones, would not have happened if the drivers had not consumed alcohol. The health service and the public finance system are burdened with high costs of treating many of the negative effects of alcohol consumption. On the other hand, the state derives significant tax revenues from the excise duty on the sale of alcohol, which goes to the state budget. Since in many countries the state budgets are burdened with budget deficits and the state finance system is not in good shape as there are high public debts, it is not easy for the state to give up such a significant source of income as excise duty on alcohol. If, however, the government decided that the costs are higher than these tax revenues and wanted to ban the production and sale of alcohol for food purposes, it would be necessary to develop an effective prohibition system, which probably does not exist at present. A century ago, attempts were made to do so in the United States, but it proved unsuccessful. So there is probably no good and perfect solution in this matter.

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

No, alcohol should not be banned. A moderate consumption of good wine for example is excellent for social events among friends and family meetings. It’s also good for your heart. A moderate consumption of alcohol is a matter of education, how to appreciate a good wine and which wine to choose for a good meal.

It is not recommended anyway

Good morning everyone. In my opinion, alcohol should not be banned.

I have the same opinion that Dr. Filip-Clubotaru

I don't drink alcohol, but my husband likes a bottle of real ale. Not very night, but when he chooses some to add to his collection, especially if he sees a new one, he reads the label very carefully and drinks it, if it is as nice as he expects, with enjoyment of the flavour etc. And does not knock it back! That would be a waste.

Then he discusses it with his friend who he does cross country running with and buys him a bottle to try. His friend does the same, if he finds a particularly enjoyable real ale.

So, if alcohol was banned, it would be such a shame for people who really enjoy it as they do. What a shame that some people make it into a negative phenomenon and spoil it for others

Hi Dr Fazleh Mahomed . Yes it should be banned because it sometimes lead to big crimes at least car accidents .

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No, I don't believe alcohol should be banned. For social alcohol consumption, most people are sensible. There are some who abuse it. Better to educate and work on the cause of the abuse. It also has many uses in medicine. In military field medicine it has many uses from sterilising an area, or being used as an anaesthetic, right through to preventing and treating extreme stress in battle situations, also to keep people warm in the field. Field medicine does not have the luxury of normal medicine's equipment and drugs and so field medicine is all about improvisation.

Alcohol consumed moderately is good for health maintenance

Individual views apart, the true facts about the socioeconomic burden due to alcohol abound in medical literature. Classified into three main categories: (1) direct costs of resources used e.g. a) health care, b) research and prevention, c) crime and law enforcement, d) property damage or loss, e) administration, f) welfare assistance or social work. (2) indirect costs of lost resources e.g a) premature mortality, b) reduced productivity due to absenteeism, poor work capacity, loss of employment or early retirement c) foster care and homeless shelters d) incarceration and (3) intangible costs, the suffering and the deterioration of quality of life of the person and of those around e.g. family or household, relatives and friends, and those encountered on the street. Harms may be to health (e.g. injury/homicide, a family member’s anxiety or depression, sexually transmitted infection), social (e.g. domestic and sexual violence/assault, community nuisance, risky behaviour and criminal victimisation, unplanned sex/pregnancy) or economic (e.g. damage to property, money for family necessities spent on drinking).