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Over the past couple of years or so I have gone on aol message boards and other blogs and seen thousand and thousands of people have the same opinion as me that see how bad alcohol is for your body and society.  Here are just a couple hundred or so of these opinions.
 
Who will lead fight against alcohol?

Mar. 20, 2006 12:00 AM

Kudos to Richard Cohen for his column Friday, "One drink too many."

It's about time somebody highlighted this problem. Alcohol is as much a drug as pharmaceuticals and tobacco.

Now, who will lead us in going after the alcoholic-beverage industry the way we went after the tobacco cartel? Or is that off limits? - Kent S. Larsen, Gilbert
New Years' Resolutions Can Be Beneficial

By Thomas Keyes
Feb. 27, 2005

I know it may seem childish to make New Years? resolutions, as if there
were something magical about that day, when, if we used a different
calendar, what we call New Year?s Day would just be another prosaic,
quotidian day.

So far I?ve kept my New Years? resolutions not only for year 2006, but
also those I made in 1983 and 1987, both of which have been exceedingly
beneficial, however artificial the routine and ritual of resolving.

In 1983, I resolved to stop drinking alcoholic beverages of all kinds,
and to this day I have lived up to it. Previously, I had made the same
resolution several times, but each time, I did it with the intention of
staying sober only until the holidays. So I would refrain from liquor
from January 1 till Thanksgiving, and complimenting myself on my
resolve, I would drink from Thanksgiving till January 1 of the
following year. But this was not enough. Causing myself much shame
because of some of the foolish things I did when I was drunk, and even
getting into legal difficulties, whose nature I?d just as soon not
mention, I eventually realized that absolute abstention was the only
way for me. So in 1983 I made an unconditional resolution: not a drop
of liquor, wine or beer ever again. No longer was it a matter of
staying sober for 11 months out of 12; it was for good. And so far I?ve
been lucky enough not to slip in these 23 years. I would not say that I
am resisting temptation any longer though, for rarely does the thought
even cross my mind nowadays.

Last August, I started doing regular exercises, which is something that
I?ve been very neglectful about over the years, particularly since I
did lots of walking and bicycling, which I figured was enough. Now,
instead, since my walking and cycling have become minimal, I do a
variety of exercises that require about an hour and fifteen minutes a
day, but I am always just a little disinclined to get going. Another
matter is that I haven?t witnessed a tremendous amount of improvement.
But I want to try it throughout the year before I judge on whether it
is worth the trouble. So that was my resolution this year. So far so
good. Since I actually started in August, I have 6 months in already.
One thing is certain, and that is that exercise won't do me any harm. 
 
 
BAN ALCOHOL TOO   Mark Thread Read
#1 - 12/29/05 11:08 PM (Msg Id: 558207:42)
DirectDemocracy9


SMOKING , ALCOHOL AND DRUGS GO HAND IN HAND..... THEY ALL DESTROY
SOCIETY........ CAN ANYONE OF YOU SHOW ME WHERE ANY OF THESE POISONS
HAVE BENEFITED SOCIETY??........ THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OWN
STATISTICS AS WELL AS THE FBI'S STATE THAT MORE THAN 90% OF ALL VIOLENT
CRIME IN THE U.S. HAVE EITHER ALCOHOL AND/OR DRUGS INVOLVED....... WHAT
MORE PROOF DOES ANY OF YOU NEED TO REALIZE THAT ALCOHOL IS AS DANGEOUS
AS ILLEGAL DRUGS??........


Attack drinking
Jerome C. Malon
Published January 26, 2006

  Chicago -- Now that we have restricted smoking, it's time to attack
alcohol. Because individuals drink too much, they can cause death and
injuries to innocent people, and have a number of related sickness
problems that cost taxpayers and insurance companies millions of
dollars, will local governments address this problem and ban alcohol
next?
 
 
The new legislation that is due to begin  next year (I think), is to protect
those people who undoubtedly would have their  health damaged by passively
smoking other peoples tobacco products.<

I  don't have a problem with that..just that there are many more things
should be  done safeguarding the air we breathe (other than blaming smokers) and
things in  general done to those through no fault of their own but by others
"wee pleasures  in life" KWIM?
Like stricter laws on factory and car emissions etc...a no  dumping
whatsoever policy of harmful chemicals into our waters etc..a total ban  on any
alcohol
in your system and none of this one or two drinks crap is OK  ...ah well..am
off to book a flight to Utopia..anyone coming along?  LOL
        Message 1 of 1  Subject:  Re: IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!!!!  Date:  6/6/2005
Mightysphinx wrote: 
[[Now we need to ban  alcohol also. It has no medical use and is even more
dangerous than Marijuana.  Let's get rid of ALL the drugs. ]]
Message 1 of 1  Subject:  Federal Government does it again!!  Date:  6/6/2005
12:36 P.M. Central Standard Time  From:  _Shannonbobanon42_
Once  again the federal government has found a way to interfere with what we
the  people of the United States voted for. I find it ridiculous how Federal 
Government even has a say in the matter but if they cannot profit from We The 
People they'll make sure they regulate it. Remember the Alcohol  Ban? In  the
end all the Government Really cares about is MONEY.
Message 24 of 31 Subject 1 of 1  Subject:  Re: Muralitharan  Date:  6/13/2005
6:48 P.M. Central Standard Time  From:  _Paulsoffstump_
(aol://4951:req=mb&sn=Paulsoffstump&email=&dsn=Paulsoffstump&dsf=1/)   MsgId:
483983:7519


>
>All drugs  banned!  What is wrong with that?  All players banned for life 
for
>drug use?  Yeah!  That's what we want. 
Message 1 of 1  Subject:  Re: Legaliztion of Marijuana  Date:  6/26/2005 9:48
P.M. Central Standard Time  From:  

>From:  Whygohome725

>
>Tobacco and alcohol are just as addictive, if  not more addictive than
>marijuana.  Tobacco and alcohol, though  federally controlled, are still
>precursors to some of the most deadly  diseases and causes of death in this
>country, and they are still legal  with no public outcry to ban them.
>Marijuana DOES have what some would  call severe effects, but so does alcohol
>and tobacco.
Hey, Im Bethanie, if I ruled the world I  would totally ban wars and all
murderers would be killed, see how they like  it!!!! I would make all unhappy
people go on a happy course so every1 wud  SMILE!!!!! I would keeps skools cos if
we dint hav em, then life wud be borin  and we wud be thick as bricks!!! But
anyway, I would stop world hunger and make  every1 get treated fairly so nobody
wud ever argue. I wud ban boring tv  documentaries and ban smoking, alcohol
and drugs 4EVA!!!!! I wud give every1  £1,000,000 so they cud hav a really good
life, but if they waste it they wont  get eny mor money. All illnesses wud be
treated and I wud employ loadza  scientists and researchers and i'd make
loadza new inventions. This is what i'd  do if i ruled the world!!!! If eny1
thinks dis is a good idea....reply  PLZ!!!!!!!!

Message 1 of 1  Subject:  Just think people..for real.  Date:  6/7/2005 7:47
A.M. Central Standard Time  From:  _AircheckJoe_

They are  saying they don't know if marijuana is a safe drug to
use...hello...does that  mean we should make voixx, bextra and phen phen illegal
drugs to
possess with  jail sentences.  What about all the people abusing their
Oxycotton  prescriptions...should we make that illegal too.  If the government could 
find a way to make more money off of selling marijuana then they could off of 
preventing it this wouldn't be an issue.  There is more alcohol related 
deaths in a America than marijuana but alcohol is still legal..and at one point 
alcohol was prohibited....what made it safe all of a sudden....nothing....the 
government found a way to make money of it by taxing it and taking political 
contributions from the breweries.  Let's not even go into the cigarettes  that
kill people everyday...willl they ban those...never...the tobacco companies 
pay for every politian's campaign. 
Message 1 of 1  Subject:  Smoking ban  Date:  6/10/2005 10:43 A.M. Central
Standard Time  From:  _MariaKvs_
Hmmmm.  Why dont we just ban alcohol as well. More people die from accidents
from  drinking and driving.
Message 1 of 1  Subject:  How about alcohol  Date:  6/6/2005 4:45 P.M.
Central Standard Time  From:  
(aol://4951:req=mb&sn=SRice55000&email=&dsn=SRice55000&dsf=1/) _SRice55000_
(aol://4951:req=mb&sn=SRice55000&email=&dsn=SRice55000&dsf=1/)   MsgId:  552929:4063


why  doesn't the government ban alcohol, which has killed many people and
broken up  families

Message 1 of 1 Subject 1 of 1  Subject:  Re: Ban the Hajj  Date:  6/16/2005
3:40 P.M. Central Standard Time  From:  _AZSHA_



Idiotic people propose  iditic stuff. Alcohol is the thing that should be
banned.   Alcohol kills 1 person every 2 mins due accident, rape  etc.
Message 1 of 1  Subject:  Re: Ban drinking!!!  Date:  6/6/2005 12:01 P.M.
Central Standard Time  From:  _HICKSVT_

I agree. All we hear is smoking Cigs. and pot. Well I agree Alcohol is the 
killer of other people.

But the reason why drinking is okay is because over half of the  goverment
does it.

Message 1 of 1  Subject:  Why is alcohol legal?  Date:  6/6/2005 1:46 P.M.
Central Standard Time  From:  _Valea42_

I dont understand how a liquid drug that  destroys families,neighborhoods is
legal but not pot? Isnt that hypocritical why  than not ban both which would
be fine with me.
Message 1 of 1  Subject:  Our stupid government!  Date:  6/6/2005 7:25 P.M.
Central Standard Time  From:  _Papacubkb_

Cigarettes and alcohol kill way more people than good ol' pot ever  will, and
will continue to do so.  However our greedy, stupid *ss  government which
doesn't have a lick of common sense, can't profit from it so  they ban it.  If it
were legal it would also cut into the insane profits  that the pharmaceutical
companies are raking in by making Americans take  their useless products,
therefore they contribute millions to our stupid  government to fight the
legalization of pot.  Our government doesn't  operate on smarts and common sense,
just dollars.  
BAN ALCOHOL
Subject: BAN ALCOHOL
Date: 5/27/05  2:46:11 PM EDT
Author:  PTracy9

           
Alcohol should be banned; it is too dangerous.
 
    Subject: Re: Fans are idiots
Date:  5/18/05 5:55:24 PM EDT
Author:  RDFruth

             
I've had beer spilled on me.  A drunk slumped-over onto  my wife's lap. 
Alcohol has ruined our MLB exposure.  We  simply do not attend games any more.
 
    Subject: Re: SPORTS AND THE FAT  MAN
Date: 5/18/05 7:40:06 PM EDT
Author:  dugan94241

          
I would bet more than 75% of incidents at sporting  events are due to
alcohol!! Period....Drunks act stupid, no  exceptions..
 
    Subject: Re: SPORTS AND THE  FAT MAN
Date: 5/18/05 8:47:45 PM EDT
Author:  STAUR1

 I work at a stadium    it is more  like 95%
of all problems are from  drinking
 
 
Subject: Re: BAN  ALCOHOL
Date: 5/27/05 3:04:53 PM EDT
Author:  CBabiash

alcohol and alcohol related driving deaths kill  more people than guns,
diseases and most everything  else.

    Ban alcohol sales at games     
      
Subject: Ban alcohol sales at  games
Date: 5/18/05 4:44:01 PM EDT
Author:  Rb26guitar

 We all know the answer, but noone (including the leagues because  of the
sponsorship) wants to give up their cold beer. I highly doubt  there are any of
these incidents that occur that aren't the result  of some intoxicated asshole.
You stop alcohol sales and you weed out  a large percentage that are just
there to get trashed and either  verbally or physically players, or in most cases,
they verbally and  physically abuse the OTHER FANS. That's what pisses me
off. You try  to go to a game, bring your family or friends or whatever, and you 
have to deal with morons that are their for obviously other reasons  than the
game. I know, I know.."I" don't do that, so don't stop  selling beer!!! is
what your thinking. Well, then shut up and  prepare to deal with this as it gets
worse and  worse.
 
Subject: BAN ALCOHOL
Date: 5/18/05  2:02:34 PM EDT
Author:  CAJNBABE43

THE ONLY WAY ALL THIS NONSENCE WILL STOP  IS TO QUIT SELLING BOOZE @ SPORTING
EVENTS! YOUCAN'T EVEN TAKE YOUR  KIDS ANYMORE~ WHAT A  SHAME.

JM: Drunk driving already kills thousands while it is legal. You  think that
number would go UP if it was made illegal? I don't. The  organized crime gangs
that operated during the first prohibition are all  long busted. They don't
operate at the same levels as they once  did......and can't any more because of
modern sophisticated law  enforcement techniques. This generation doesn't
have the guts like  previous generations....in spite of all the media propaganda
bull shit.  Most people these days are docile sheep.

Alcohol kills.  Alcohol is evil

JM: Then you are for banning of alcohol also, right? Good.....so am  I.
 
Subject: Re: Drugs End All  Dreams=D.E.A.D.
Date: 6/7/05 3:17:35 AM EDT
Author:  Lonelycook

You are so right, in fact  lets also ban the use of alcohol and  tobacco.
VictorSto wrote: 
[[PLEASE STOP ALL THE TYPES OF DRUGS BEFORE IT ENDS YOUR  OR A LOVED ONE'S
LIFE.  IT'S REALLY NOT WORTH IT.  PLEASE  DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE AND DESTROY
YOUR LIFE.  GOD LOVES YOU  THE WAY HE MADE YOU NATURALLY. ]]

Subject: IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!!!!
Date:  6/6/05 1:09:41 PM EDT
Author:  Mightysphinx

Thank you for your rating.       Now we need to ban alcohol also. It has no
medical use and is even  more dangerous than Marijuana. Let's get rid of ALL
the  drugs.      
   
Subject: this law is soooo backwards
Date:  6/6/05 6:27:42 PM EDT
Author:  TSOURCE1030

               
This law is so backwards. If the feds want to be so big and bad to  outlaw
medical marijuana, why don't they brush up on what happens when  alcohol is
consumed or cigarettes are smoked. It's alcohol and  cigarettes that should be
illegal! 
Alcohol has been attributed to so many murders, drunken drivers killing  our
loved ones, drownings.......I could go on and on. Cigareettes cause 
respiratory problems, makes you miss work, etc.
In summary, the Federal Government should not worry so much on how we  treat
ourselves. Alcohol and cigarettes should be banned.
Ignornant, Ignorant,  Ignorant....           
 
Subject: Ignornant, Ignorant,  Ignorant....
Date: 6/6/05 3:15:08 PM EDT
Author:  Razorman2

         
For those of us who went to college (and actually did some  studying), we
learned that there has never once been a death related  to the use of marijuana
alone.  We also learned, that two of  the three most dangerous drugs to the
human body are alcohol and  nicotine.  Where does marijuana stand on that list? 
It is  pretty close to the bottom.
Our society has let itself become ignorant, and  judgemental.  Why do we
condone and accept alcohol and  nicotine as a "lifestyle", something cool and
glamorous?  Why  does our society continue to fall for this insane propaganda?  
The answer is two fold....money and big corporations.
Open your eyes people.  If we want to ban the use of  marijuana, then should
we not take the next step and ban the use of  alcohol and nicotine?  Many of
you are mislead, and therefore  assume mislead opinions.    
No, I am not saying that we should aslo condone the use of other  drugs that
are medically proven to cause permanent, and long term  damage to our bodies
(heroin, cocaine, LSD).  What I am saying  is our society needs to wake up, and
educate itself with the facts,  not what our "trustworty" government and
media tell us.
If we are to classify those who smoke marijuana as loosers,  should we not
put those who drink and smoke cigaretes into the same  category?  Why do we
classify those who smoke marijuana as  criminals, when we classify alcoholics as
people who have a  disease?  
Shame on the government!  Shame on those of you who judge  others, and have
no idea what you are talking about!  Shame on  you for not thinking for
yourself!  
Wake up people!
Subject: Re: whacky
Date:  6/6/05 1:49:20 PM EDT
Author:  Collecthearts46

Kluj1 wrote: 
[[what a bunch  of whacky crapola...banning pot for medical...hell it should 
be legal just for recreation......oh wait...people can go buy  alcohol...get
stupid drunk to the point they can not stand  up...then drive and
killl......to date, being 45, i have not  seen one such person smoke a lil weed and
get
beligerent or  stupid as they do on alcohol...go figure !!
EXACTLY!!!
People will never "GET IT", you can get all the alcohol,  and prescription
drugs you want, all addictive, all causing  serious car accidents, falls, etc.
but weed that helps people  in numerous ways, has to be bought on the sly, like
your a  criminal...sick, twisted laws!!
give me a bone any day over a pill or  booze!
Subject: Re: Marijuana
Date:  6/6/05 3:03:06 PM EDT
Author:  BttsGrvl

Alcohol is the drug that should be  banned.
at least a stoner is mellow. drunk people are  obnoxcious morons.  
 
Message (Msg #  552929:2092)
Subject: Re: OUTLAW  ALCOHOL
Date: 6/6/05 2:23:58 PM EDT
Author:  RaceNdirt

Don't believe it for a second. Our  government has been profitting off drug
trafficking  longer than I've been alive. It's big business. 60  Minutes
focused on the subject at their inception. Sad  our politicians can see fit to allow
alcohol (which has  no medicinal properties) and would deny someone 
terminally ill the right to comfort. A great many of our  drugs have a plant base but
marijuana has been singled  out. It has been taboo. Is it because it might
drive the  street value down and attack profits if a ban was  lifted? That would
be my guess. Fact is alcohol kills  every day.
 
Subject: Medical  marijuana...
Date: 6/6/05 7:08:01 PM  EDT
Author:  Windyshawnm
       
This statement bothers me:
John Walters,  director of national drug control policy, defended  the
government's ban. "Science and research have  not determined that smoking marijuana
is safe or  effective," he said.
ok... but alcohol & cigarettes have  proven health problems associated with
them  but they are legal?
How many people  have died from overdosing on marijuana (pure, not  laced)? 0
How many people have died from  alcohol poisoning? Waaay more than 100
How many  people have died from smoking cigarettes?  Millions
 
Subject: Just think  people..for real.
Date: 6/7/05 8:47:14 AM  EDT
Author:  AircheckJoe

              
They are saying they don't  know if marijuana is a safe drug to 
use...hello...does that mean we should make  voixx, bextra and phen phen illegal
drugs to 
possess with jail sentences.  What about  all the people abusing their
Oxycotton  prescriptions...should we make that illegal  too.  If the government
could find a way to  make more money off of selling marijuana then  they could off
of preventing it this wouldn't be  an issue.  There is more alcohol related 
deaths in a America than marijuana but alcohol  is still legal..and at one
point alcohol was  prohibited....what made it safe all of a 
sudden....nothing....the government found a way  to make money of it by taxing it
and taking 
political contributions from the  breweries.  Let's not even go into the 
cigarettes that kill people everyday...willl  they ban those...never...the tobacco
companies  pay for every politian's campaign.   

Subject: How about  alcohol
Date: 6/6/05 5:45:13 PM  EDT
Author:  SRice55000

        
why doesn't the government  ban alcohol, which has killed many people and 
broken up families....give me a break some of  you against legalizing are
probably sitting down  drinking you a beer right now.....
 
Subject: Re: Marijuana is  Not a Safe Drug
Date: 6/6/05 5:30:04 PM  EDT
Author:  Lin2u52

ScottB6316  wrote: 
[[ 
Just wondering, what are your thoughts on the  sale and marketing of alcohol,
particularly at  sporting events and spring break events.   I'm sure there
are alot of folks out  there, whose loved ones have suffered at  the hands of
drunk drivers, who would say  alcohol was a gateway drug to all kinds of  stupid
acts including beating up your wife and  vehicular manslaughter.
Or,  here's an idea...lets try and raise  our kids responsibly and let those 
people with chronic illnesses get  the relief they need.  
]]
Honey I don't drink or use drugs so  banning the booze is a great idea to me.
I  have felt that way for a long time.  The  trouble with booze an illeagle
drugs that it  makes on feel invincable, 9' tall and bullet  proof so it
causes all kinds of problems for  society.  ]]

  
Subject: Re:  Marijuana
Date: 6/6/05 4:10:31 PM  EDT
Author:  ForSickPupsOnly

       
Beckboat girl wrote: 
[[
StrykerDustyRed  wrote: 
[[PRESCRIPTION DRUGS KILL MORE  PEOPLE IN A YEAR THAN POT HAS KILLED IN THE
LAST  50 YEARS. ]]
Alcohol kills more people, directly and  indirectly, and ruins more families
lives than  any single "drug" on the planet, but, do any  politicians want to
ban it?
Subject: Re: Ban  drinking!!!
Date: 6/6/05 1:01:47 PM  EDT
Author:  HICKSVT

         
I agree. All we hear is smoking Cigs. and  pot. Well I agree Alcohol is the
killer of other  people. 
But the reason why drinking is okay is  because over half of the goverment
does  it.
Why is alcohol  legal?      
Subject: Why is alcohol  legal?
Date: 6/6/05 2:46:12 PM EDT
Author:  Valea42

         
I dont understand how a  liquid drug that destroys families,neighborhoods  is
legal but not pot? Isnt that hypocritical why  than not ban both which would
be fine with  me.
 
    
Subject: Our stupid  government!
Date: 6/6/05 8:25:26 PM  EDT
Author:  Papacubkb
   

Cigarettes and alcohol kill  way more people than good ol' pot ever will, and
will continue to do so.  However our  greedy, stupid *ss government which
doesn't have  a lick of common sense, can't profit from it so  they ban it.  If
it were legal it would  also cut into the insane profits that the 
pharmaceutical companies are raking in by  making Americans take their useless
products, 
therefore they contribute millions to our stupid  government to fight the
legalization of  pot.  Our government doesn't operate on  smarts and common
sense, just dollars.  If  you contribute enough money, you can control the 
government.  Do you think we would be in  Iraq if they didn't have any oil...I think
not,  WMD's is just a lie masking the oil companies  money interests.  This
medical marijuana  issue cuts into the pharmaceutical companies  bottom line. 
The pharmaceutical companies  don't care about our health...just the health of 
their bank accounts.  Just listen to their  commercials.  Take this
prescription pill  for this minor ailment..but you may suffer these  horrendous side
effects.
 
Subject: MEDICINAL  MARIJUANA
Date: 6/6/05 12:00:11 PM  EDT
Author:  Aqueenan3kings

         
BUT THE GOVT. WILL ALLOW YOU TO BUY  ALCOHOL--DRINK & GET SO HIGH YOU KILL 
SOMEOME ELSE OR YOURSELF DUE TO BEING IMPAIRED.  I JUST FEEL THAT NO ONE SHOULD
HAVE TO GO TO  SLEEP & WAKE UP IN SEVERE PAIN EVERY DAY OF  THEIR LIVES. SO
YOU GOVT. PEOPLE---WAKE UP &  SMELL THE COFFEE DUDES- MARIJUANA DOESN'T 
KILL--BOOZE DOES!!!! BAN THE BOOZE & KEEP  OUR FAMLIES ALIVE--TIGHTEN THE LAWS ON
THE CRAP  & HELP OUR DISABLED,VETS,ACCIDENT  VICTIMS(DUE TO BOOZE) LIVE WITH
LESS TO NO PAIN  FOR THE REST OF THEIR PAINFULL 
LIVES---PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   STELLA  CASWELL 
Subject: Re: band  them!
Date: 5/31/05 4:09:35 PM EDT
Author:  Wiz kid 19936517
Ban  alcohol!     
The goverments  wouldn't do that cos they r horrible monsters,  they dont
care about people, they only care  about all the money they get. I wish it was 
banned i really do
 
Subject: Re: Ban  cigarettes and alcohol
Date: 6/6/05 2:43:07  PM EDT
Author:  JEBPURTY

SpiritedFriend2 wrote: 
[[They are the true  poisons of society along with the self righteous 
religious reich. ]]
I agree  100%.





Take interest in the future--that  is where you will spend the rest of your 
life!


Subject: Re: BUSINESS  RIGHTS
Date: 5/12/05 5:17:14 PM  EDT
Author:  AnntWb

it never ceases to amaze me  how this country goes from one extreme to
the  other......alcohol should be banned altogether,  it causes more accidents,
more domestic violence  more everything.



Annette 

Subject: Re: Drugs End  All Dreams=D.E.A.D.
Date: 6/7/05 3:17:35 AM  EDT
Author:  Lonelycook

Thank you for your rating.       You are  so right, in fact lets also ban the
use of  alcohol and  tobacco.
VictorSto  wrote: 
[[PLEASE STOP ALL THE TYPES OF  DRUGS BEFORE IT ENDS YOUR OR A LOVED ONE'S   
                             LIFE.&  IT'S REALLY NOT WORTH IT.   PLEASE DON'T
MAKE THE MISTAKE AND DESTROY YOUR  LIFE.  GOD LOVES YOU THE WAY HE MADE YOU 
NATURALLY. ]]
  
Date: 5/15/05 6:22:37 PM  EDT
Author:  Ihategomar

          
>From: JetMechMA

>I think  alcohol should be banned ....again. I have seen  nothing but harm
come
>from it's use. I  would vote for prohibition in a heart  beat.

 

BAN ALCOHOL TOO
     
Subject: BAN ALCOHOL TOO
Date: 7/25/05  5:14:38 PM EDT
Author:  Jpf1326

I DOUBT THE POLITICIANS WILL BAN ALCOHOL BECAUSE
THEY ALL ENJOY LIQUID LUNCHES.  I PROPOSE
WE BAN ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO AND PASS A LAW
THAT EVERYONE MUST ATTEND CHURCH ON  SUNDAY
 
Subject: Smoking Bans Burning Me Up
Date:  7/25/05 2:18:01 PM EDT
Author:  rcoyle785

             
Having already been banned from restarants, public buildings, and even  some
entire cities (Check out Boulder, Colorado's recent bans), and some  companies
requiring their employees to be smoke free even away from work,  additional
legislation not only seems pointless, but spiteful.  What  strikes me as
incongrous is that these same establishments and cities  welcome tobacco products
for the sales they represent.  Know of any  cities where the sale of cigarettes
is banned?  Seen any business  licenses for smoke shops denied lately? I
strongly doubt it.
If they are so concerned about our health and  the health of others, why
don't they target alcohol?  Many more  people die every year at the hands of drunk
drivers, intoxicated brawlers,  and others who can't or won't control their
habit.  I know of no bans  of alcohol in any hotels or motels.  I haven't heard
of any employers  including mandatory testing for any residual alcohol as a
condition  for employment.  And talk about costs!  Any idea how much a  month
long alcoholism treatment program, that will likely fail,  costs?  Compared to
tobacco, alcohol prohibition should be  supported and immediately instituted
WORLD WIDE.
The reason for the difference?   Simple, many more politicians drink today
than smoke.  Many  more of their constituents do also.  In other words, smokers
are a  persecuted minority.  (The only minority actively persecuted by and 
with the full support of all levels of government)  It is time to lay  off.
On a historical  note, the government used to encourage citizens to take up
the  habit.  Oftentimes, this was subtle.  I distinctly remember, for  example,
when I was in boot camp the drill instructor calling out "Light  em, if you
got em" as a way to begin a break.  Those who didn't smoke  continued with
whatever was assigned, without break.  True, this was  over 30 years ago. It
stills grandly illustrates one method the feds used  to promote tobacco use.  The
Surgeon General at one point supported  the use of chew as an alternative to
smoking.  Anything to  keep the tax dollars rolling in.
Date: 7/25/05 4:23:47 PM EDT
Author:  CACROOK1974
Why don't they get on the alcohol drinkers who can drink at arenas, 
colliseums, entertainment centers, ball parks, etc., act stupid, get loud,  obnoxious,
rude especially around kids, breathe smells raunchy, then they  leave these
places and drive home or next place to drink.  Let's see,  it takes only
seconds to get in a vehicle after drinking and kill  someone.  It all comes down to
money, yes, the good ole greedy  Mr. Grinch.  See those places don't sell
cigarettes, so they'd don't  make any money, but they do on alcohol.  Get the
picture?  
Legislators in NJ need to pass a ban alcohol from  all public places.  NOW of
course, biggest distractor is cell  phones.  What about that?  Write, call,
email all NJ  legislators, governor, etc.  
CCrook 
Subject: What about  alcohol?????
Date: 7/25/05 12:09:20 PM EDT
Author:  Chattrpuff

Smoking has been taken off of tv and out of ads for years  now. Smokers are
taxed beyond the limits of anyone else, they pay  more for any kind of
insurance, and are made to feel like they are  scum.  Now you want to ban smoking in
cars??  When was the  last time you heard of someone getting killed because
they just had  too much to smoke? What about alcohol??  The last time I heard  of
an accident about someone getting killed because someone had too  much to
drink was...well...TODAY!  You can't stop the drunks  from drinking and driving
so why not go to the smokers, especially  since we pay 3 times as much tax on
our cigarettes as the people who  buy alcohol.  Come on people!  If we are
really concerned  about public safety, lets put a ban on advertising any alcoholic
drink, and tax them out the ass.
 
Subject: Re: Bill Would  Ban Smoking While Driving
Date: 7/27/05 2:04:00 AM  EDT
Author:  SeattleLGN123

In many years there has  been no new laws when it comes to alcohol, alcohol
taxes, and  alcohol caused deaths..why is that because alcohol lobbiest  give a
TON of cash to elected officals.
>From:  Heatisback
Subject: Smoking in  Cars
Date: 7/25/05 2:48:43 PM EDT
Author:  LMinemyer

            
This is the most  assinine thing I've heard in a long time.  It won't  be
long before we'll be told when to use the bathroom  for goodness sake.  Drunk
drivers kill more people  than someone smoking in their car, so why haven't 
drinkers of alcoholic beverages been banned from public  restaurants, sporting
events, and other places where  children are present?  Why isn't another tax
placed  on alcohol when "the powers that be" need more  money?  Why don't
alcoholics and the families of  alcoholics filing more lawsuits because of alcohol 
addiction?  Give me a break!!
Mary Pope 
  
Subject: smoking in cars  ban
Date: 7/25/05 2:49:10 PM EDT
Author:  Jjarsh

       
OK  enough is enough.   Why  are they not doing the same thing with  alcohol.
I know it's not legal to drink and  drive, however alcohol is used more than
cigarettes.  Alcohol kills others on the  road, destroys families, and yet
there are not  special taxes on it nor it restricted to where it  can be
consumed.  Guess that more government  officials DRINK than  SMOKE. 
   
Subject: Re: Question for  Smokers
Date: 7/25/05 11:58:20 AM  EDT
Author:  MRCGOLF

Mungacuy wrote: 
[[ 
I am wondering why the taxes on alcohol have  not skyrocketed as much as the
taxes on  cigarettes.  After all, alcohol causes more health  problems, mental
problems and accidents then  smoking.
Because its all about money--  the govt is  afraid to overtax alcohol- the
general public would  outraged-  they dont mind living with the destroyed  lives
of alcoholics or the lives lost in traffic  accidents--
Subject: NJ  smoking/driving ban
Date: 7/25/05 12:24:14 PM  EDT
Author:  KPamesa

       
When the laws require police  officers stationed outside each and every
entity  that sells alcoholic beverages so that they can  confiscate keys or arrest
anyone who has imbibed,  then and only then should a smoking ban be 
considered. Everyone should wake up to the fact  that alcohol and drugs are a far
worse
threat to  humanity.
 
   
Subject: Re: smoking in  cars ban
Date: 7/25/05 10:34:35 PM  EDT
Author:  DoTheMathChump

       
I AGREE TOTALLY LOOK AT THE  DAMAGE ALCOHOL DOES TO SOCIETY / DUI' S/DEATHS 
TIES UP COURTS DOMESTIC /CHILD ABUSE ETC ETC TAX  THE HECK OUT OF ALCOHOL MORE
WHY IS A CASE OF  BEER CHEAPER THEN A CARTON OF CIGARETTES ?   POLITICIANS
WONT FIX THE PROBLEMS JUST KEEP  ADDING TO EM WITH HIGHER TAXES &  IGNORING REAL
ISSUES
 
       
Subject: alcohol versus  smoking
Date: 7/25/05 4:18:33 PM  EDT
Author:  TrnrMag

       
cigarette smokers pay many  hunder times the
excise taxes then alcohol  drinkers alcohol killes thousands more young 
people then cigarettes but because most  anti-smokers drink including the
politicos they  don't want to address  this
 
 
   
Subject: ?!?!?!
Date:  7/25/05 1:23:18 PM EDT
Author:  SB5769

       
Where did the figures come from for  the  "1 percent of 32,000 accidents
related to  smoking"?  Our country has lost its mind.  What about the fact that
you can watch TVand see  an anti-smokers commercial side by side with a  pro
alcohol commercial?  Don't you think  that more people die from drunk drivers,
than  smoking drivers?  I'm sure more peolple  have died without any control at
the hands of  drunk drivers, than they have from smokers who  you can walk
away from.  
Subject: ban  smoking?
Date: 7/25/05 2:39:35 PM  EDT
Author:  Mtk2438
       
If 1 % of accidents were  caused by smoking then how many were caused by 
drinking.  Why not ban any one who drinks  any alcoholic beverage from driving as
well? Or  don't Jersey legistlators think drinking is as  bad as smoking?
 
Re: Go after booze!!!      
Subject: Re: Go after booze!!!
Date: 7/19/05  2:21:31 AM EDT
Author:  Dolly Doo 333

       
Lori,
I agree the Goverment keeps bringing up the tobacco but what  about the
alcohol? I never heard of anyone killing someone while driving  under the influence
of tobacco but sure have of under the influence of  alcohol. They wnt to ban
smoking, well ban the drinking it kills people on  the road more then anything
else.
Subject: alcohol versus  smoking
Date: 7/25/05 4:18:33 PM EDT
Author:  TrnrMag

       
 cigarette smokers pay many hunder times the 
excise taxes then alcohol drinkers alcohol killes thousands more  young
people then cigarettes but because most anti-smokers drink  including the politicos
they don't want to address this      
   
Subject: Re: Good Idea!
Date:  7/25/05 1:49:11 PM EDT
Author:  Danlakeport

       
i think that if you are such a martyr, you should focus  your attention on
banning alcohol and cellphone usage while  driving.   Alcohol is as bad as
smoking.   don't you agree, or is it that you are are that narrowminde  ????
 
    
Subject: Re: Bill Would  Ban Smoking While Driving
Date: 7/26/05  10:14:26 AM EDT
Author:  Rdwgfn1

    Good point  cathy.  What kills me is the damage alcohol and  drunk
driving has done to so many families across  America..yet there has been NO new
federal laws issued  against alcohol in over 10 years.  For example I  believe
that if you get behind the wheel of a car and  drive drunk...and in the course
that you hit someone and  kill them..you should be charged with 1st degree 
murder
Yes what are they charged with,  Vehicular manslaughter? And not to mention
how many  times a person can get a dui and spend no time in  jail.

  
Subject: Re:  Talking of drugs ......
Date: 7/4/05 8:51:16 AM  EDT
Author:  sturob777

Mesmerise 2001 said:

"Alcohol is a  much, much more dangerous chemical.  The state of  altered
perception from using alcohol is more  dangerous.  Use of alcohol accounts for
the state  of our city centres at weekends and the violence we see  there."

Agree with you. I often think that if  alcohol was only just being introduced
now, the  government would have to ban it in order to have a  consistent
approach.  It's also amazing how many  people look down on drug-users but are
quite happy to go  out themselves with the express intention of getting  hammered.
Ask them what the difference is and they  are hard-pressed to tell you. 
Personally   I've never done drugs and of alcohol, but I do see  the
side-effects, and so I tend to view both in a  similarly negative way.  The crime and
damage from  alcohol tends to be more directly felt, but there are  also a lot of
drugs-related crimes.


However,  if by 'experienced' you mean 'experienced the effects  of' then I'd
agree.  I've experienced the effects  of drug use when I've been negatively
affected by the  behaviour of people off their heads.  I know people  who have
become increasingly paranoid from drug use, and  I 've seen the effects on
their friends and  families.  I've had stuff stolen from me by drug  users. In my
opinion that qualifies me as much as anyone  else to say what I think.
 
   
Subject: WHAT ABOUT  ALCOHOL PERIOD
Date: 7/25/05 1:55:34 PM  EDT
Author:  BEARDEH

        
      FIRST THEY BETTER FOCUS ON  ALCOHOL      
   
Subject: Re: Should be US  wide!
Date: 7/25/05 2:32:19 PM EDT
Author:  D 4 A 2 G 0 S

       
How can they keep something  legal that kills so many people.  There  needs
to be a law against tobacco and  alcohol.  They both do u no good and kill 
people every day.  
 
    
Subject: Re: smoking ban  in uk pubs
Date: 7/10/05 2:53:32 AM  EDT
Author:  Woodcowli

>
>>Alcohol is far more  damaging to life, health, relationships and  families
>than
>>smoking ever  will be.
 
   
Subject: Re: Should  Smoking Be Ban?
Date: 7/25/05 4:18:25 PM  EDT
Author:  Khimaira0557

       
BossLdy321 wrote: 
[[ 
Ok lets all  take some time to think and be serious  here. whether  you light
up a  cigarette  behind the wheel of your  car or already have it lite and
drive ,How  likely are you to kill someone? Chances very  very slim to none. If
you drink some beer before  or after you get behind the wheel, how likely is 
the possiblity of you killing someone? I would  say maybe 75%. We alway pick
on the smokers.I  think it is time all these states start picking  on the
DRINKERS.
Subject: Re:  smoking/cancer
Date: 7/25/05 4:25:27 PM  EDT
Author:  Khimaira0557

Grandmomdidit  wrote: 
[[ 
SMOKING SHOULD BE   BANNED, PERIOD. It offers absolutely  nothing beneficial
to anyone, except the tabacco  companies. ]]
Ok,  I know it's not good for me. But none  beneficial... If we are banning
things that  are non beneficial, I would like to start with  alcohol. It has
caused me and my family more  grief than cigarettes every have.
Date: 7/25/05 11:56:59 AM EDT
Author:  Newsdln

       
There are hardly any places a smoker can go  to smoke anymore.........yet, we
let drinkers  drive and kill themselves and others in  accidents.  Why should
we put up with the  senseless acts of those who drink when alcohol 
definitely changes perception, thinking,  judgment, etc.
Subject: Re: Another  Non-Smoker
Date: 7/25/05 2:07:51 PM  EDT
Author:  Autodepot1430

       
do you drink? how nmany  people does alcohol kill per year? not to  mention
how many families alcohol  destroys!!
 
   
Subject: Drinking &  driving
Date: 7/25/05 3:37:54 PM  EDT
Author:  GUSBRAU

       
is against the law, but how many people do it  & get away with it?
How many lives are lost or maimed for  life because of alcohol?
I don't understand why M.A.D.D. &  S.A.D.D. have not filed any lawsuits
against  alcohol companies when they are the ones  responsible for teen drinking,
which is on the  rise.
Subject: Up in  Smoke!!!
Date: 7/25/05 4:17:47 PM  EDT
Author:  Kittykiser01

       
Give me a break. You can  NOT smoke in most restaurants now but you can 
still consume alcohol. They should quit  selling alcohol in restaurants and  bars.
 
 
   
Subject: No smoking in  cars
Date: 7/25/05 1:09:49 PM EDT
Author:  CannelleNTulsa
     
let's see....what does more  physical, emotional and mental damage...alcohol 
or cigarettes...how many people have been killed  by drunk drivers compared
to people who have  been killed by smokers  driving?
 
Message 2 of 2 (Msg  # 552688:4322)
Subject: BAN ALCOHOL
Date: 5/27/05  3:04:53 PM EDT
Author:  CBabiash
alcohol and alcohol related driving deaths
kill more people than  guns, diseases and most everything else. 

Subject:  BAN ALCOHOL
Date: 5/27/05  2:46:11 PM EDT
Author:  PTracy9

       
Alcohol should be banned; it is too dangerous.
 
Subject: Ban Alcohol
Date:  5/2/05 5:06:58 PM EDT
Author:  Sue h at 27

          
I can see the  sense in banning alcohol which definitely causes many problems
and  misery.  You can have a good time without it,believe it or  not.  You
don't feel bad the next day either saving the loss of  a day in your life!





Message (Msg #  552462:395)
Subject: BAN ALCOHOL
Date: 5/18/05  2:02:34 PM EDT
Author:  CAJNBABE43

       
THE ONLY WAY ALL THIS NONSENCE WILL STOP  IS TO QUIT SELLING BOOZE @ SPORTING
EVENTS! YOUCAN'T EVEN TAKE YOUR  KIDS ANYMORE~ WHAT A SHAME.
CAJNBABE43
Message 1 of 3 (Msg #  552362:292)
Subject: Serve Alcohol & Ban  Cig? Both Dangerous
Date: 5/12/05 2:57:06 PM  EDT
Author:  Mickbigstick

      
It is a bit ironic that Restaurants which Sell Alcoholic  drinks because it
makes great profits but then ban  Cigarette smoking?  Which kills more people (
including  highway accidents) Alcohol or Tobacco?

Both are harmful and hurt the Public.  Why not ban  both?  MONEY, MONEY, 
MONEY?
Message 2 of 3 (Msg #  552362:316)
Subject: Re: Serve Alcohol &  Ban Cig? Both Dangerous
Date: 5/12/05 3:11:23 PM  EDT
Author:  Mickbigstick

     
    
Restaurants with or without BARS  don't want to prohibit the use of Alcohol
because IT IS A BIG  MONEY MAKER.

Same with Tobacco.  If they  sell cigarettes they obvioulsy don't want to ban
their use NOR  WORRY ABOUT KIDS USING ALCOHOL OR CIGARETTES.  MONEY,  MONEY,
PROFITS IS ALL THAT COUNTS IN U.S.  SOCIETY?


Message 3 of 3  (Msg # 552362:324)
Subject: Re: Serve Alcohol &  Ban Cig? Both Dangerous
Date: 5/12/05 3:14:28 PM  EDT
Author:  Mickbigstick

        
       
YEP.  Talk health and  protection of Kids but MAKE MONEY OFF OF ALCOHOL & 
TOBACCO.

        Message 1 of 4  (Msg # 552362:546)
Subject: No smoke? Then no  alcohol!
Date: 5/12/05 4:24:38 PM EDT
Author:  NMSUGrad

       
By this logic, if I can be banned from
smoking  on my own time, then I think they should also consider banning the  use of
alcohol on one's own time. Alcoholism is a serious  disease, alcohol related
deaths by vehicle are a serious issue . . .  let's take it to it's logical
conclusion! More people drink than  smoke now days don't you think?

     Subject: Re: Alcohol?
Date:  5/12/05 1:00:48 PM EDT
Author:  Prs486

       
[[
We have the stats that show alcohol is related to more deaths,  disease, and
medical costs than drugs or  tobacco...

Why not ban alcohol for "off-duty" activities?  I sure would  feel much safer
knowing those with their fingers on "the button"  were thinking straight...

Hmmm...wonder if our "law makers and elected officials" would  support that
bill? They have the same stats we do... of course they  also drink.  Ted
Kennedy, along with half the legislative  branch, wouldn't last long with those
rules...(Freshen that up  for you, senator?).   And corperate executives...doesn't
their own health affect their company...shouldn't they be first in  line to
give up, even at home, excesses that cost the company  money?  Will they be
tested and fired if the have a  puff?

This is just more govenment supported big business control of the 
workers...it has little to do with actual smoking or health.   The cost of testing
people for tobacco makes the whole idea moronic  and financially impractical.   And
then we want to  impliment a system of corperate rats who snitch when they
see people  smoking...what a wonderful society we are building for  ourselves.
]]I'm a social worker and I've never seen children removed  from their
parents because mom or dad smoked cigarettes.....I've  never seen women battered
because dad came home from the bar after  smoking a pack of cigarettes, and I've
not worked with clients who  have brain injuries or loss of limb or
functioning due to a smoking  driver.  Alcohol is by far a more damaging drug to our
social  fabric.
Message 1 of 3 (Msg #  552362:304)
Subject:  SMOKE-DRINK-DIE>PROFITS
Date: 5/12/05 3:04:43 PM  EDT
Author:  Mickbigstick

     
Smoking injures and kills the Smoker but also the public  around them.

But so does Alcohol.  But ITS ALL ABOUT  PROFITS.  Restaurants, grocery
stores and Bars like the  Big Profits from Alcohol but we all know that Many
Drinkers  will drink too much and that Smokers will Smoke too  much.

IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY and that is Why we don't ban Both  Alcohol and Tobacco.
 
Subject: Re: Ban cigarettes and  alcohol
Date: 6/6/05 2:43:07 PM EDT
Author:  JEBPURTY

            

SpiritedFriend2 wrote: 
[[They are the true poisons of society along with the self righteous 
religious reich. ]]
 


Subject: Re: Ban cigarettes and  alcohol
Date: 6/6/05 3:13:25 PM EDT
Author:  LBC 2940

       
SpiritedFriend2 wrote: 
[[They are the true poisons of society along with the self righteous 
religious reich. ]]
I agree 100%.





Take interest in the  future--that is where you will spend the rest of your
life!

   
Subject: Re: BUSINESS RIGHTS
Date:  5/12/05 5:17:14 PM EDT
Author:  AnntWb

it never ceases to amaze me how this country goes from one extreme  to
the other......alcohol should be banned altogether, it causes more  accidents,
more domestic violence more everything.



Annette 

  
Subject: Re: Drugs End All  Dreams=D.E.A.D.
Date: 6/7/05 3:17:35 AM EDT
Author:  Lonelycook

       
You are so right, in fact  lets also ban the
use of alcohol and  tobacco.
VictorSto wrote: 
[[PLEASE STOP ALL THE TYPES OF DRUGS BEFORE IT ENDS YOUR  OR A LOVED ONE'S
LIFE.  IT'S REALLY NOT WORTH IT.  PLEASE  DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE AND DESTROY
YOUR LIFE.  GOD LOVES YOU  THE WAY HE MADE YOU NATURALLY. ]]
  
Subject: Re: Legalize it  why...not?
Date: 5/15/05 6:22:37 PM EDT
Author:  Ihategomar

       
     
>From:  JetMechMA

>I think alcohol should be banned  ....again. I have seen nothing but harm
come
>from it's  use. I would vote for prohibition in a heart  beat
 


Subject: IT'S ABOUT  TIME!!!!!!
Date: 6/6/05 1:09:41 PM EDT
Author:  Mightysphinx

       
 Now we need to ban alcohol also. It has  no
medical use and is even more dangerous than Marijuana.  Let's get rid of ALL
the drugs.      
   
Subject: this law is soooo  backwards
Date: 6/6/05 6:27:42 PM EDT
Author:  TSOURCE1030

            
This law is so backwards. If the feds want to be so  big and bad to outlaw
medical marijuana, why don't they brush  up on what happens when alcohol is
consumed or cigarettes are  smoked. It's alcohol and cigarettes that should be 
illegal! 
Alcohol has been attributed to so many murders, drunken  drivers killing our
loved ones, drownings.......I could go on  and on. Cigareettes cause
respiratory problems, makes you miss  work, etc.
In summary, the Federal Government should not worry so much  on how we treat
ourselves. Alcohol and cigarettes should  be banned.
Ignornant, Ignorant,  Ignorant....     
 
Subject: Ignornant,  Ignorant, Ignorant....
Date: 6/6/05 3:15:08 PM  EDT
Author:  Razorman2

       
For those of us who went to college (and actually did  some studying), we
learned that there has never once  been a death related to the use of marijuana 
alone.  We also learned, that two of the three most  dangerous drugs to the
human body are alcohol and  nicotine.  Where does marijuana stand on that  list?
It is pretty close to the bottom.
Our society has let itself become ignorant, and  judgemental.  Why do we
condone and accept  alcohol and nicotine as a "lifestyle", something cool  and
glamorous?  Why does our society continue to  fall for this insane propaganda? 
The answer is two  fold....money and big corporations.
Open your eyes people.  If we want to ban the  use of marijuana, then should
we not take the next step  and ban the use of alcohol and nicotine?  Many of 
you are mislead, and therefore assume mislead  opinions.    
No, I am not saying that we should aslo condone the  use of other drugs that
are medically proven to cause  permanent, and long term damage to our bodies
(heroin,  cocaine, LSD).  What I am saying is our society  needs to wake up,
and educate itself with the facts, not  what our "trustworty" government and
media tell us.
If we are to classify those who smoke marijuana as  loosers, should we not
put those who drink and smoke  cigaretes into the same category?  Why do we 
classify those who smoke marijuana as criminals, when we  classify alcoholics as
people who have a disease?   
Shame on the government!  Shame on those of you  who judge others, and have
no idea what you are talking  about!  Shame on you for not thinking for 
yourself!  
Wake up people!
 
Subject: Re:  whacky
Date: 6/6/05 1:49:20 PM EDT
Author:  Collecthearts46

       

Kluj1 wrote: 
[[what a bunch of whacky  crapola...banning pot for medical...hell it should 
be legal just for recreation......oh wait...people  can go buy alcohol...get
stupid drunk to the point  they can not stand up...then drive and 
killl......to date, being 45, i have not seen one  such person smoke a lil weed and
get
beligerent or  stupid as they do on alcohol...go figure !!
EXACTLY!!!
People will never "GET IT", you can get all the  alcohol, and prescription
drugs you want, all  addictive, all causing serious car accidents,  falls, etc.
but weed that helps people in numerous  ways, has to be bought on the sly,
like your a  criminal...sick, twisted laws!!
give me a bone any day over a pill or  booze!

Subject: Re:  Marijuana
Date: 6/6/05 3:03:06 PM  EDT
Author:  BttsGrvl

       
alcohol is the drug that should be banned. 
at least a stoner is mellow. drunk people are  obnoxcious morons.   
 
Subject: Re: OUTLAW  ALCOHOL
Date: 6/6/05 2:23:58 PM  EDT
Author:  RaceNdirt

            
Don't believe it for a  second. Our government has been profitting off  drug
trafficking longer than I've been alive.  It's big business. 60 Minutes
focused on the  subject at their inception. Sad our politicians  can see fit to
allow alcohol (which has no  medicinal properties) and would deny someone 
terminally ill the right to comfort. A great  many of our drugs have a plant base but
marijuana has been singled out. It has been  taboo. Is it because it might
drive the street  value down and attack profits if a ban was  lifted? That
would be my guess. Fact is alcohol  kills every day.
 
   
Subject: Medical  marijuana...
Date: 6/6/05 7:08:01 PM  EDT
Author:  Windyshawnm

           
This statement bothers  me:
John Walters, director of  national drug control policy, defended the 
government's ban. "Science and research have not  determined that smoking marijuana
is safe or  effective," he said.
ok... but alcohol & cigarettes have  proven health problems associated with 
them but they are legal?
How many  people have died from overdosing on marijuana  (pure, not laced)? 0
How many people have  died from alcohol poisoning? Waaay more than  100
How many people have died from smoking  cigarettes? Millions
 
    
Subject: Just think  people..for real.
Date: 6/7/05 8:47:14 AM  EDT
Author:  AircheckJoe

      
They are saying they don't  know if marijuana is a safe drug to 
use...hello...does that mean we should make  voixx, bextra and phen phen illegal
drugs to 
possess with jail sentences.  What about  all the people abusing their
Oxycotton  prescriptions...should we make that illegal  too.  If the government
could find a way to  make more money off of selling marijuana then  they could off
of preventing it this wouldn't be  an issue.  There is more alcohol related 
deaths in a America than marijuana but alcohol  is still legal..and at one
point alcohol was  prohibited....what made it safe all of a 
sudden....nothing....the government found a way  to make money of it by taxing it
and taking 
political contributions from the  breweries.  Let's not even go into the 
cigarettes that kill people everyday...willl  they ban those...never...the tobacco
companies  pay for every politian's campaign.   

   
Subject: How about  alcohol
Date: 6/6/05 5:45:13 PM  EDT
Author:  SRice55000

       
why doesn't the government  ban alcohol, which has killed many people and 
broken up families....give me a break some of  you against legalizing are
probably sitting down  drinking you a beer right now.....
 
        
Subject: Re: Marijuana is  Not a Safe Drug
Date: 6/6/05 5:30:04 PM  EDT
Author:  Lin2u52

       
Lin2u52 wrote: 
[[
ScottB6316  wrote: 
[[ 
Just wondering, what are your thoughts on the  sale and marketing of alcohol,
particularly at  sporting events and spring break events.   I'm sure there
are alot of folks out  there, whose loved ones have suffered at  the hands of
drunk drivers, who would say  alcohol was a gateway drug to all kinds of  stupid
acts including beating up your wife and  vehicular manslaughter.
Or,  here's an idea...lets try and raise  our kids responsibly and let those 
people with chronic illnesses get  the relief they need.  
]]
Honey I don't drink or use drugs so  banning the booze is a great idea to me.
I  have felt that way for a long time.  The  trouble with booze an illeagle
drugs that it  makes on feel invincable, 9' tall and bullet  proof so it
causes all kinds of problems for  society.  ]]

  
Subject: Re:  Marijuana
Date: 6/6/05 4:10:31 PM  EDT
Author:  ForSickPupsOnly

       
Beckboat girl wrote: 
[[
StrykerDustyRed  wrote: 
[[PRESCRIPTION DRUGS KILL MORE  PEOPLE IN A YEAR THAN POT HAS KILLED IN THE
LAST  50 YEARS. ]]
Alcohol kills more people, directly and  indirectly, and ruins more families
lives than  any single "drug" on the planet, but, do any  politicians want to
ban it?
Subject: Re: Ban  drinking!!!
Date: 6/6/05 1:01:47 PM  EDT
Author:  HICKSVT

             
I agree. All we hear is smoking Cigs. and  pot. Well I agree Alcohol is the
killer of other  people. 
But the reason why drinking is okay is  because over half of the goverment
does  it.
Why is alcohol  legal?      
Subject: Why is alcohol  legal?
Date: 6/6/05 2:46:12 PM EDT
Author:  Valea42

       
I dont understand how a  liquid drug that destroys families,neighborhoods  is
legal but not pot? Isnt that hypocritical why  than not ban both which would
be fine with  me.
 
    
Subject: Our stupid  government!
Date: 6/6/05 8:25:26 PM  EDT
Author:  Papacubkb

             
Cigarettes and alcohol kill  way more people than good ol' pot ever will, and
will continue to do so.  However our  greedy, stupid *ss government which
doesn't have  a lick of common sense, can't profit from it so  they ban it.  If
it were legal it would  also cut into the insane profits that the 
pharmaceutical companies are raking in by  making Americans take their useless
products, 
therefore they contribute millions to our stupid  government to fight the
legalization of  pot.  Our government doesn't operate on  smarts and common
sense, just dollars.  If  you contribute enough money, you can control the 
government.  Do you think we would be in  Iraq if they didn't have any oil...I think
not,  WMD's is just a lie masking the oil companies  money interests.  This
medical marijuana  issue cuts into the pharmaceutical companies  bottom line. 
The pharmaceutical companies  don't care about our health...just the health of 
their bank accounts.  Just listen to their  commercials.  Take this
prescription pill  for this minor ailment..but you may suffer these  horrendous side
effects.
 
   
Subject: MEDICINAL  MARIJUANA
Date: 6/6/05 12:00:11 PM  EDT
Author:  Aqueenan3kings

       
BUT THE GOVT. WILL ALLOW YOU TO BUY  ALCOHOL--DRINK & GET SO HIGH YOU KILL 
SOMEOME ELSE OR YOURSELF DUE TO BEING IMPAIRED.  I JUST FEEL THAT NO ONE SHOULD
HAVE TO GO TO  SLEEP & WAKE UP IN SEVERE PAIN EVERY DAY OF  THEIR LIVES. SO
YOU GOVT. PEOPLE---WAKE UP &  SMELL THE COFFEE DUDES- MARIJUANA DOESN'T 
KILL--BOOZE DOES!!!! BAN THE BOOZE & KEEP  OUR FAMLIES ALIVE--TIGHTEN THE LAWS ON
THE CRAP  & HELP OUR DISABLED,VETS,ACCIDENT  VICTIMS(DUE TO BOOZE) LIVE WITH
LESS TO NO PAIN  FOR THE REST OF THEIR PAINFULL 
LIVES---PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   STELLA  CASWELL 
Subject: Re: band  them!
Date: 5/31/05 4:09:35 PM EDT
Author:  Wiz kid 19936517
Ban  alcohol!     
The goverments  wouldn't do that cos they r horrible monsters,  they dont
care about people, they only care  about all the money they get. I wish it was 
banned i really do
 
Subject: Ban Alcohol
Date:  4/14/05 10:29:05 AM EDT
Author:  Lotsoclas

      
They need to ban alcohol on flights  too.  I
believe that more emergency stops have been  caused more by unruly drunks
than someone with a  lighter. 

    
Subject: Re: Ban Alcohol
Date:  4/14/05 10:31:19 AM EDT
Author:  Knitster58

            

Lotsoclas wrote: 
[[They  need to ban alcohol on flights too.  I believe that more  emergency
stops have been caused more by unruly drunks  than someone with a lighter.   ]]
They should ban alcohol on flights.  Drunk passengers  on an airplane can
make it an unplesant experience for  all.

     Why do not ban an alcohol (lesson from  history)            _‹‹prev 
Subject: Why do not ban an alcohol  (lesson from history)
Date: 4/15/05 2:41:52 AM  EDT
Author:  Vasilidavis

         
Lesson from history is simple. 
Alcohol was a major cause for many deaths and  illnesses.
It was then banned and now it's not. It  makes no sense but nothing in this
world does.
Subject: Re: Our  Generation
Date: 4/5/05 5:05:47 PM  EDT
Author:  SDBreaux1987


Of course, but I don't exactly see the  government making any attempts to ban
alcohol again. 

You know what's weird? The same thing people did  with alcohol when it was
banned at one point people are  doing it with pot (smoking it as though it's
legal --  and you'd be surprised how many people smoke it). And  that's how come
alcohol was made legal again -- too many  people were being arrested for it.

I think the  only reason it isn't working with pot is because our  government
has become more money hungry (they make money  off of busting people with
pot) than what they used to  be. I think there was a point in time when the 
government truly cared about its  people.


  
Subject: Re: prohibited  objects on airplanes
Date: 4/14/05 10:11:08  AM EDT
Author:  Nicklplatedheart

       
IFMWBPR2634 wrote: 
[[Banning lighters on airplanes is  because of the fluids they contain.  Why 
don't they realize that the alcohol that is being  carried for drinking is
just as dangerous. Even  worse, the pilots are still getting alcohol drinks 
while flying. When are they going to stop that.  When are they going to start
testing pilots for  alcohol before they fly ? No alcohol aboard any  plane should
be allowed, if you need to drink  everytime you are idle, you're an
alcoholic.  ]]
Let's all just compile a list of  25 things that should be banned in airports
and  airlines, combine the list, and send it to the  White House....by the
time we get through the list  and the fine print, we could have gotten to our 
destinations in a covered wagon pulled by a  mule!
 
       
Subject: Big  Deal?
Date: 3/21/05 11:23:05 AM  EST
Author:  Krisnicole98

I was reading the link for the 411 on steriod  use from the webMD and this is
why I think there  are more things to worry about than steriod use.  These
are the side effects listed:
Men who take anabolic steriods may:
* Develop breasts   (the users problem)
* Get painful erections  (again the users  problem)
* Have their testicels shrink (their problem again)
* Have decreased sperm count (also their problem)
* Become infertile or impotent (are we seeing a patern  yet?)
Both men and women may:
* Get acne
* Have oily scalp and skin
* Get yellowing of the skin
* Become bald
So Far I Do Not See Any  Real Dangers!
Now a little more serious  things but I still have questions:
* Have heart attacks  (ok. good reason, but a bad diet  also causes this.  I
do not see anyone  outlawing unhealthy food!)
* Develope significant risk of liver disease  and liver cancer
(ok. alcohol also  causes this, but where is the ban on  alcohol)
* Have high levels of "bad " cholesterol.
(Again, unhealthy  foods cause this but we still have fast food  resturaunts
on ever corner in the  country. )
* Have mood swings, fly into rages, suffer  delusions
(Again,   alcohol also causes all these things, yet  alcohol is still very
much ok.)
I guess  I am just  curious about the REAL reason people are so  against
steriods when there are many legal  things out there that are just as bad if not 
worse out there??!!!
I guess I just think that grown ups who are  educated on the side of effects
of steriods  should be able to make their own decisions about  it.  There far
more serious issues to worry  about than this!
(Msg #  551695:410)
Subject: What to  Ban
Date: 4/15/05 6:19:23 PM EDT
Author:  Archnemesis1

       
In the article I read in  today's paper, it
reported that there were 155  deaths "related to" ephedra.  Not debating  that
there are risks with taking it, I have to  ask myself what the percentage of
deaths to  people taking ephedra were.  Why you  ask?  In my state alone last
year, there  were over 155 deaths "related to" alcohol (drunk  driving,
alcohol poisoning, etc), but the  government did not put a ban on alcohol 
consumption! 


   
Subject: Re: prohibited  objects on airplanes
Date: 4/14/05 10:46:32  AM EDT
Author:  J2usall

           
I couldn't agree more. Just recently there  have been several incident of
pilots being DWI  while flying. Alcohol kills or is  responsible for far more
deaths and illnesses  than smoking. In addition, there are numerous  incidences
of drunken passengers creating  disturbances on planes. 
In addition to the NO Smoking Ban add a NO  Alchoholic Drink ban. Of course
No Alchohol  would mean a revenue loss for the airline so  that is probably why
this issue is not  pursued. For the record, I am a smoker and  been known to
imbibe, so have no axe to  grind.
I totally agree with the notion of pre  flight testing of pilots et all for
drugs and  alcohol.
It's about time the" powers that  be"  cease regimenting the American  public
and start legislating  their  monied constituancy  regarding obvious 
problems.
 
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Subject:    Smoking and drinking   
Date:    5/6/2003 6:50 PM Central Daylight Time   
  
As far as bars go...  I am against alcohol!  When someone drinks and drives it is like someone playing russian roullete with their own lives and the lives of anyone on the road.  Alcohol is a drug.  An addictive drug.  Yet it is legal.  I was young and foolish at the time that I drank.  Alcohol causes some people to black out and not know what they have done during that time.  It is a big cause of the break up of marriages.  Of families.  When a spouse chooses alcohol over their family.  I feel alcohol should be illegal.  I am more anti alcohol than anti smoking.  If someone doesn't want to be where their is smoke then go to someplace that has a no smoking section.  If someone doesn't want to be around alcohol you have to stay inside you home because people drink and drive.  I lost a brother n law who was on his way home from college with his fiance' to tell the family he was getting married.  On their way home a man who was under the influence of alcohol ran into them.  He died instantly, his fiance' lived in a coma for a few months and died.  They were both 21 years old.  Just graduated from college and ready to start their lives as husband and wife.  And one man took that away from them.  One man took away a  brother , a son, a daughter, a friend to so many.  There are deaths of families, children, babies, husbands, wives, mothers, fathers , and friends, everyday because alcohol is legal. 
Yes , smoking is bad but alcohol is so much worse.  You can get away from smoke you can't get away from alcohol.  God Bless All!  Rid this great country of the deadly liquid , alcohol.

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Subject:    BRING BACK ALCOHOL PROHIBITION   
Date:    5/7/2003 7:13 AM Central Daylight Time   
From:    CNM Designs 1   
Message-id:    <20030507081345.23388.00003234@mbs-r06.aol.com>   
  
  


Let's list just a few things that Alcohol does to a person OR to someone that may be right next to them.


* Drinking during pregnancy has been linked to birth defects and is the leading known preventable cause of mental retardation. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is characterized by a cluster of congenital birth defects which include low birth weight, physical deformities, neurological and other major organ disorders. (this affects more than the person drinking, ya wanna talk about second hand smoke?)

* Pregnant women who drink are twice as likely as nondrinkers to have a growth-retarded infant weighing less than 5.5 pounds.

* Alcohol use results in economic costs of more than $112 billion each year, or nearly $400 for each person in the United States.    

* Nearly one-fourth of all persons admitted to general hospitals have alcohol problems or are undiagnosed alcoholics being treated for the consequences of their drinking. Up to 25% of emergency room visits involve alcohol. In 1990, Federal payments for alcohol-related health-care costs amounted to more than $21 billion.    

* In 1999, alcohol and other substance abuse costs imposed $60.3 billion on Medicare and Medicaid, veterans, and other major health benefits.    

* In 2001, alcohol was a factor in more than 40% of traffic fatalities   

* Approximately 35% of fatalities from falls and 43% from burns are alcohol-related   

* Forty-seven percent (47%) to 65% of adult drownings involve alcohol.    

* Up to 40% of industrial fatalities and 47% of industrial injuries can be linked to alcohol consumption and alcoholism.    

* A 2000 study of boating fatalities in four states found that 51% of the fatalities involved a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) of .04 or more. Thirty-one percent (31%) had BACs over .10.   

* Alcohol is the leading cause of death and injury (e.g., motor-vehicle crashes, homicides, and suicides) among teenagers and young adults ages 15-24.   

*The estimated annual cost of alcohol-related STDs in the United States is $556 million.   

Lets put the same restrictions on alcohol to save our population that we do on tabacco!

TRUTH

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Subject:  but don't drink   
Date:    5/5/2003 7:21 PM Central Daylight Time   
From:    JMX123   
Message-id:    <20030505202139.21181.00017127@mbs-m11.aol.com>    
   
   Although I believe smoker should be courteous to non-smokers I believe that the exact same laws, taxes and social barriers should be put in place for alcohol.

I have never drove home drunk on Cigarettes, how many people are killed each year on the road by smokers.  How many spouse abuse and assault cases arise out of someone coming home having had too many cigs.

Healthcare costs in this country (15%+ alcoholic rate) for alchol abuse is far greater than that for smoking.  So why aren't the states suing alcohol manufacturers???  Why are Alcohol companies allowed to make seductive ads aimed at young people??

Money, Money , Money thats why!!! It is amazing that they banned smoking on airplanes (not for your health, but to save on fresh oxygen thats required), but you read the papers all the time about incidendents involving alcohol............Airlines sell alcohol not cigarettes....amazing that they would put an aircraft in jeopardy, but don't you dare smoke!!

Look at baseball and other sports...............The have banned smoking, but alcohol crazed fans attack umpires and players...in Europe its worse!! 

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Subject:    BAN ALCOHOL TOO, ALCOHOL ALSO KILLS   
Date:    5/6/2003 6:28 PM Central Daylight Time   
From:    Jordan INC   
Message-id:    <20030506192811.14895.00001129@mbs-m11.aol.com>    
   
Cigs are legal just as is Alcohol, Alcohol stinks and can kill me and my children when faced with one under the influence on a highway, a highway that I as a tax payer help pay for, All drinkers that are downing the smokers, well guess what .. you are next .. cigs and alcohol are both legal, yet city and state officals seem to have the right to tell buyers when and what they can do with their purchases. I am a non-smoker, but I stand for smokers rights, and I don't down one because of their choices, come back to this same forum in a year when you will be discussing the issues of alcohol banning as well, then you will be on the same page the smokers are on today.

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Subject:    ~~~~ALCOHOL IS MUCH WORSE~~~~   
Date:    5/5/2003 9:56 PM Central Daylight Time   
From:    FlashinThePan79   
Message-id:    <20030505225605.00435.00014183@mbs-m08.aol.com>    
   
Alcohol kills many more innocent people than smoking does.If i want to smoke,
I am only harming myself(as long as i don't expose anyone to my smoke) which
i dont,but Alcohol related deaths are much worse because it kills innocent people.
I have yet to hear of smoking tobacco that has lead to any deaths,except for a 1
percent,that causes a fire from smoking.The reason everyone is coming down on smokers is because there are alot more Drinkers than smokers,98 percent of congress drinks,So they
attack Smokers to draw attention away from drinking! I will smoke any place i choose,
but i choose to smoke only in my own home,I think restaraunts and Bars should put in glass
rooms with Hepa filters,So smokers can smoke,otherwise,they should get rid of the Alcohol as well!! I am sick of Government coming down on Smokers just to draw attention away from all the deaths caused by Alcohol,not including liver disease,and a list of diseases
that Alcohol is directly a known cause of.LAY OFF THE SMOKERS OR GET RID OF THE DRINKERS AS WELL!!!

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Subject:    ATTACK ALCOHOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   
Date:    5/6/2003 9:47 AM Central Daylight Time   
From:    KEN12334   
Message-id:    <20030506094547.06041.00016826@mbs-r05.aol.com>    
   
This is all a one sided BS attack. Non-smokers can argue the health issues all they want, but you don't hear them arguing those points about alcohol. In fact alcohol isn't even under attack, so let's talk about that...

Health Issues:

A) Self Inflicted Illnesses
1) Tobacco
2) Alcohol
a) Tobacco causes Lung Cancer
b) Alcohol destroys the liver

B) Affecting Others
1) Tobacco
2) Alcohol
a) 2nd hand smoke may cause others medical problems twenty years down the road
b) Drinking and Driving can wipe out a family right down the road fifteen minutes from a bar

In an outdoor stadium at a sporting event you can drink all you want up to a certain point of the game, but you can't smoke a cigarette. At many restaraunts you can order hard liquor and drink as much as you want, but you can't smoke a cigarette. I don't see no anti drinking movements happening, only anti smoking attacks. How about leveling the playing field?

Oh to non-smokers who drink wouldn't like the idea of their right to a beer with their steak being taken away would they? Or God forbid if you can't drink at a sporting event, but the hell with cigarette smokers rights! Doesn't that pretty much sum up the truth behind all of this?

Spare me with the 2nd hand smoke BS argument too, because as already proven above that is a hypocritical argument. How many of you drinkers always has a designated driver? Sorry, but your drinking and driving is far more deadly and harmful to others than second hand smoke.

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Subject:    Ban smoking in bars? Then ban alcohol too!   
Date:    5/5/2003 7:53 PM Central Daylight Time   
From:    LoveTULS   
Message-id:    <20030505205323.06283.00014619@mbs-r02.aol.com>    
   
Both alcohol and smoking kill people.. if a bar is going to ban smoking, might as well ban alcohol too. Alcohol kills more people than smoking anyway, you have to add up those in car accidents, alcoholism, suicide attempts which yes, is sometimes caused by alcohol. Why in hell, when you're in a bar, would you want to go outside and smoke a cigarette when some bars actually have a fee to get in? Which means you'd have to pay to get in again. Bars are social places. Personally, if a bar chose to ban smoking I don't think many people would attend, everyone has a friend that smokes and they aren't going to want to go there. I think if a non-smoker has a problem with it he or she should just shove it up their you know what, because even when you step outside (for those non-smokers that have a problem with this) their going to run into polution that could possibly kill them also.. so, maybe we should just go back to cavemen time??

Liz

Subject:    If we ban Smoking then ALCOHOL should be outlawed as well.   
Date:    5/5/2003 5:59 PM Central Daylight Time   
From:    PhenderStrat   
Message-id:    <20030505185912.06107.00014767@mbs-r02.aol.com>    
   
This is freaking ridiculous!!  If cigarettes are to be made illegal, then alcohol should be illegal as well.  More people die from the stupidity of drunkenness than from second hand smoke!!  Can anyone name one documented case in which the cause of death was second hand smoke???  You probably cannot because there is none to document.  How many INNOCENT people die from a drunk driver's poor judgement??? Thousands!  So, If the enviro-nazis decide to make smoking illegal, then alcohol should be first.  Alcohol is the most addicting, life ruining drug out there besides perhaps heroin.  Oh and by the way alcohol kills brain cells, messes up your liver, stomach, and pancreas.  Americans are soooo vastly stupid when it comes to things that should make common sense.  I wish people in this hole in the earth would wake up and get some brains before the whole country collapses.

Message 36 of 43 Subject 1 of 1   
Subject:    Re: can drinking alcohol make you fat?   
Date:    5/5/2003 10:18 AM Central Daylight Time   
From:    Whitesmar   
Message-id:    <20030505111805.20617.00012453@mbs-m07.aol.com>    

>Dear friend that is true what you say, but let me repectfully add that
>alcohol is a deadly poison that should NEVER enter the body.
>You and multitudes will rush to condemn me and rigorously disagree, but if
>you fully check out where alcohol comes from and the damage it does even in
>moderation, you would be horrified.
>Every time you take just one alcoholic drink, you instantly lose hundreds of
>brain cells.
>As well as having the writings of some of the greatest physcians who have
>done vast unbiase researches, I can testify from personal experience
>too.Finally, to your question, yes of course it can make you fat, look at the
>numberless pot bellied boozers.
>Want to know more about this terrifyingly horrendous poison disguised with
>heavy doses of varieties of sugars,sweeteners and flavourings? just drop me
>an e mail ok?

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Subject:    Re: can drinking alcohol make you fat?   
Date:    5/5/2003 8:05 AM Central Daylight Time   
From:    TWCinternational   
Message-id:    <20030505090540.26908.00012572@mbs-m09.aol.com>    

Dear friend, ALL alcohol should NEVER enter the body, it odes NO GOOD WHATSOEVER.
As I said in another message,the bozze is produced by the "fermentation" process,
ferment means  to rot, decay?go off.
Booze is very good at tricking the mind and body, i.e. schnapz is drunk to keep out the cold, WRONG!, what it does is has a sort of numbing effect so you cant feel the cold. this is why tramps drink meths, they think they feel warm but they die of hyperthermia because the body cant warn them they are cold because the neves that cause shiver to warn you are numbed.
Alcohol is a depressant, and finally what happens to make one tipsy or drunk, what actually causes that? What happens is that because of the poison in y


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Subject:    ~~~~ALCOHOL IS MUCH WORSE~~~~   
Date:    5/5/2003 9:56 PM Central Daylight Time   
From:    FlashinThePan79   
Message-id:    <20030505225605.00435.00014183@mbs-m08.aol.com>   
  
  


Alcohol kills many more innocent people than smoking does.If i want to smoke,
I am only harming myself(as long as i don't expose anyone to my smoke) which
i dont,but Alcohol related deaths are much worse because it kills innocent people.
I have yet to hear of smoking tobacco that has lead to any deaths,except for a 1
percent,that causes a fire from smoking.The reason everyone is coming down on smokers is because there are alot more Drinkers than smokers,98 percent of congress drinks,So they
attack Smokers to draw attention away from drinking! I will smoke any place i choose,
but i choose to smoke only in my own home,I think restaraunts and Bars should put in glass
rooms with Hepa filters,So smokers can smoke,otherwise,they should get rid of the Alcohol as well!! I am sick of Government coming down on Smokers just to draw attention away from all the deaths caused by Alcohol,not including liver disease,and a list of diseases
that Alcohol is directly a known cause of.LAY OFF THE SMOKERS OR GET RID OF THE DRINKERS AS WELL!!!

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Subject:    ATTACK ALCOHOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   
Date:    5/6/2003 9:47 AM Central Daylight Time   
From:    KEN12334   
Message-id:    <20030506094547.06041.00016826@mbs-r05.aol.com>   
  
  


This is all a one sided BS attack. Non-smokers can argue the health issues all they want, but you don't hear them arguing those points about alcohol. In fact alcohol isn't even under attack, so let's talk about that...

Health Issues:

A) Self Inflicted Illnesses
1) Tobacco
2) Alcohol
a) Tobacco causes Lung Cancer
b) Alcohol destroys the liver

B) Affecting Others
1) Tobacco
2) Alcohol
a) 2nd hand smoke may cause others medical problems twenty years down the road
b) Drinking and Driving can wipe out a family right down the road fifteen minutes from a bar

In an outdoor stadium at a sporting event you can drink all you want up to a certain point of the game, but you can't smoke a cigarette. At many restaraunts you can order hard liquor and drink as much as you want, but you can't smoke a cigarette. I don't see no anti drinking movements happening, only anti smoking attacks. How about leveling the playing field?

Oh to non-smokers who drink wouldn't like the idea of their right to a beer with their steak being taken away would they? Or God forbid if you can't drink at a sporting event, but the hell with cigarette smokers rights! Doesn't that pretty much sum up the truth behind all of this?

Spare me with the 2nd hand smoke BS argument too, because as already proven above that is a hypocritical argument. How many of you drinkers always has a designated driver? Sorry, but your drinking and driving is far more deadly and harmful to others than second hand smoke.

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Subject:    Ban smoking in bars? Then ban alcohol too!   
Date:    5/5/2003 7:53 PM Central Daylight Time   
From:    LoveTULS   
Message-id:    <20030505205323.06283.00014619@mbs-r02.aol.com>   
  
  


Both alcohol and smoking kill people.. if a bar is going to ban smoking, might as well ban alcohol too. Alcohol kills more people than smoking anyway, you have to add up those in car accidents, alcoholism, suicide attempts which yes, is sometimes caused by alcohol. Why in hell, when you're in a bar, would you want to go outside and smoke a cigarette when some bars actually have a fee to get in? Which means you'd have to pay to get in again. Bars are social places. Personally, if a bar chose to ban smoking I don't think many people would attend, everyone has a friend that smokes and they aren't going to want to go there. I think if a non-smoker has a problem with it he or she should just shove it up their you know what, because even when you step outside (for those non-smokers that have a problem with this) their going to run into polution that could possibly kill them also.. so, maybe we should just go back to cavemen time??

Liz

Subject:    If we ban Smoking then ALCOHOL should be outlawed as well.   
Date:    5/5/2003 5:59 PM Central Daylight Time   
From:    PhenderStrat   
Message-id:    <20030505185912.06107.00014767@mbs-r02.aol.com>   
  
  


This is freaking ridiculous!!  If cigarettes are to be made illegal, then alcohol should be illegal as well.  More people die from the stupidity of drunkenness than from second hand smoke!!  Can anyone name one documented case in which the cause of death was second hand smoke???  You probably cannot because there is none to document.  How many INNOCENT people die from a drunk driver's poor judgement??? Thousands!  So, If the enviro-nazis decide to make smoking illegal, then alcohol should be first.  Alcohol is the most addicting, life ruining drug out there besides perhaps heroin.  Oh and by the way alcohol kills brain cells, messes up your liver, stomach, and pancreas.  Americans are soooo vastly stupid when it comes to things that should make common sense.  I wish people in this hole in the earth would wake up and get some brains before the whole country collapses.

Message 36 of 43 Subject 1 of 1   
Subject:    Re: can drinking alcohol make you fat?   
Date:    5/5/2003 10:18 AM Central Daylight Time   
From:    Whitesmar   
Message-id:    <20030505111805.20617.00012453@mbs-m07.aol.com>   
  
  


>Dear friend that is true what you say, but let me repectfully add that
>alcohol is a deadly poison that should NEVER enter the body.
>You and multitudes will rush to condemn me and rigorously disagree, but if
>you fully check out where alcohol comes from and the damage it does even in
>moderation, you would be horrified.
>Every time you take just one alcoholic drink, you instantly lose hundreds of
>brain cells.
>As well as having the writings of some of the greatest physcians who have
>done vast unbiase researches, I can testify from personal experience
>too.Finally, to your question, yes of course it can make you fat, look at the
>numberless pot bellied boozers.
>Want to know more about this terrifyingly horrendous poison disguised with
>heavy doses of varieties of sugars,sweeteners and flavourings? just drop me
>an e mail ok?

Message 17 of 43 Subject 1 of 1   
Subject:    Re: can drinking alcohol make you fat?   
Date:    5/5/2003 8:05 AM Central Daylight Time   
From:    TWCinternational   
Message-id:    <20030505090540.26908.00012572@mbs-m09.aol.com>   
  
  


Dear friend, ALL alcohol should NEVER enter the body, it odes NO GOOD WHATSOEVER.
As I said in another message,the bozze is produced by the "fermentation" process,
ferment means  to rot, decay?go off.
Booze is very good at tricking the mind and body, i.e. schnapz is drunk to keep out the cold, WRONG!, what it does is has a sort of numbing effect so you cant feel the cold. this is why tramps drink meths, they think they feel warm but they die of hyperthermia because the body cant warn them they are cold because the neves that cause shiver to warn you are numbed.
Alcohol is a depressant, and finally what happens to make one tipsy or drunk, what actually causes that? What happens is that because of the poison in your blood, the blood cells stick together like sticky gobstopper sweets thus restricting the flow of blood through the capilliary glands, hence the result is a lack of oxygen to the brain and the brain starts to malfunction, the person becomes more and more incoherant and wobbly, silly and even hallucinatory and violent and sick, some paraletic to the point of incapable of simple body movements and eventually passing out.
Now tell me that this behaviour is natural and perfectly normal and fun. FUN? to destroy your mind and body cells,to wallow around like some stupifed zombie and then wake up with a horrendous hangover and often not remember a thing? Has the human race lost the plot or something?

Subject:    Re: If we ban Smoking then ALCOHOL should be outlawed as well.   
Date:    5/5/2003 7:57 PM Central Daylight Time   
From:    KAREN 626   
Message-id:    <20030505205702.22911.00013780@mbs-m10.aol.com>   
  
  


I believe you are right about the alcohol.  I know it not only puts people on the highways in danger but it also destroys most families.  I know this for a certainty.  I wonder what will happen when they ban alcohol just like they do smoking?  It needs to happen.  Being a drunk is more readily accepted where smoking is not.  Go to any bar around closing time and see who the alcohol is aimed at.  Most of them are young people.  All alcoholic commercials are aimed at the young people and show what a joyous time these people have that drink.  What these commercials don't show is the heartbreak of families that have to deal with the problem.  GET REAL

This new law is just another way to take away the rights of all people.  When are people going to wake up and see what is happening.  One day we won't have any rights at all and the American people will have no one to blame but themselves

Subject:    Re: Liquor Kills Quicker !!!!   
Date:    5/7/2003 11:25 AM Central Daylight Time   
From:    MTuttle328   
Message-id:    <20030507122545.20768.00003856@mbs-m01.aol.com>   
  
  


OK, I agree that restaurants should be non-smoking;  or at least clearly state that, if a "Bar and Grill" type of establishment, smoking is allowed in certain sections....As an ex-smoker, I don't care to eat at a restaurant that allows smoking....ON THE OTHER HAND:  ALCOHOL RELATED ILLNESS HOSPITALIZE AND KILL THOUSANDS IF NOT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE EACH YEAR! OK, we would NEVER think of banning booze....but it is a CHOICE to order a drink, or to frequent establishments which serve alcoholic beverages.  Hell, booze affects thousands of unborn children, and millions of families suffer because of alcohol related problems each year, but we dare not say that everyone who CHOOSES to drink has a low IQ, is selfish, is a bad parent, etc....

Subject:    Re: Ban Alcohol Too   
Date:    5/5/2003 6:57 PM Central Daylight Time   
From:    Pattimhart   
Message-id:    <20030505195710.20129.00014175@mbs-m10.aol.com>   
  
  



      I agree...and I am a smoker.  I do not like the price hikes of the cig's...but I think alcohol should be banned all together.  What the hell good does it do.  I was the child of drinkers, the wife of drinkers...and yes ocassionally I do drink..but I could live with out it.  Perhaps one day I can live with out smoking too. 

      Alcohol kills people in many more ways that smoking. 

      Car wrecks.
      Liver disease.
      Family violence.
      Many other things that I have lived through.

      There was a time when alcohol was banned....I would like to see it agian.


Subject:    Re: U cannot compare alcohol & smoking!   
Date:    5/6/2003 12:42 PM Central Daylight Time   
From:    Luv935   
Message-id:    <20030506134220.17993.00018281@mbs-m10.aol.com>   
  
  


it is  a proven fact that alcohol has major affects on the lungs as bad as cigarette smoke not to MENTION alcohol also creates tiny holes in your brain tissue which is not reversable.alcohol also causes effects on your judgment and people drinking also loose their inhibitions. does smoking cause you to loose your judgment or inhibitions?
do you hear of car crashes because of a smoker that got out of hand? do you hear of people going to jail because they lost their temper smoking? do your book-work.

 

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    Name: Romani Termina on Dec 4, 2002
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol should be banned for good, for the health of minors and everyone else!!!!
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    Name: Cherish Hodge on Jan 12, 2003
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: You can't kill several people in a few seconds by lighting up a cigarett. You can, however, by drinking and getting drunk.
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    Name: Jason Lee Ostrom on Jan 16, 2003
    State:
    Country: CA
    Comments: I am a citizen of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and I have been sent this by a very good friend of mine. I agree with it whole-heartedly, for I myself have had a battle with alcohol and it's effects for many of my 28 years. It has recently come to my attention, and my doctor's attention, that I was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and have had many inner battles with the lasting effects of social problems, a chemical imblance, and the physical problems related to the disorder. I haven't needed alcohol to cope with life's trials for over 2 years, and I am better off without it. I believe we all are. Jason Lee Ostrom
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    Name: Michael White on Feb 21, 2003
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: If there is anything more that I can do to help convince our government to abolish alcohol, please let me know. Alcohol could have distroyed my life. But thanks to the intervention of Jesus Christ, I'm still here. Now, I want to do whatever I can to prevent others from making the same mistake that I almost made. You can give me a call at (561) 218-9148, or you can write me at: 10339 Sunstream Lane, Boca Raton, Florida 33428. Thank you.
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  7. Name: Erica Louvelle on Mar 11, 2003
    State:
    Country: CA
    Comments: I think that alcohol should be baned from people because they do all kinds of crazy stuff.
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    Name: Rodney Stanton on Apr 9, 2003
    State: SC
    Country: US
    Comments: it needs to be gone
  10. Name: Sharon Carr on Aug 4, 2003
    State: WA
    Country: US
    Comments: Ban the Drug Alcohol, and rid the country of all the devastation
  11. Name: Chrisitn Seibert on Sep 24, 2003
    State: IN
    Country: US
    Comments: i lost a close family friend in druck drunk driving accident a few weeks ago.i dont want any thing that horrible to ever happen to any one that loves someone as much as we loved her.i want this to end now.thats wh im going to help.
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    Name: Aimee Aimee on Oct 4, 2003
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: horrific harm indeed.
  13. Name: Jamie Beverton on Dec 7, 2003
    State:
    Country: UK
    Comments: Having grown up in an alcoholic family, and as a recoving alcoholic myself, I know how evil this drug this.
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    Name: Jerome Emerson on Jan 12, 2004
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol is a horrible drug..It needs to either be baned or made less accessable...
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    Name: Stephanie Lyles on Feb 12, 2004
    State:
    Country: US
    Comments: i would just like to say we are haveing to do a persuasive speech in my high school class &im doing it on banning alcohol mbecause its getting to where no one is taking care of there familys and all of the deaths not only by d/w/i but by the effect & deasise.

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    Name: Wayne Hemmerich on Jun 13, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: It be nice that Alcohol would be banned as I hadnt drink in over 20 year my self but in recent couple of years I don't mind an couple of beer on the week end or some good fruity wine but as I know I stay home to enjoy it as Iam careful with it. How ever as time goes on I see an possible permanet prohabitions of alcohol as if we as an nation does come muslim friendly ( which strictly prohabit use of any altering substances) as most Christian would also like to see come sooner or later . yea just give this another few years it will happen (permanant prohibation) Specially when there will be an studie via the mormons (expert on geneology) on how altering substances does destroyed and greatly shorting the lives of indivisual Families and communities sooner or laters it will come out on the papers and will become lawfuls.
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  3. Name: Shelia Young on Aug 24, 2004
    State: VA
    Country: US
    Comments: YES BAN ALCOHOL only Trouble comes from it. They will take off all Advertisement for tabacco products but encourage alcohol IT MAKES ME SICKKKKK!!!!
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    Name: Dave Matthews on Oct 27, 2004
    State:
    Country: UK
    Comments: I fully agree and anyone caught drunk should be treated as the crimminal that they are. Governments around the world dont want to ban it as it is a big earner for them, how can they not see the damage it does to the youth
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    Name: Justin Sirianni on Oct 31, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: I'm am very against alcohol. I'm currently in college and see people drunk off their ass everyday and I hate it. Some have even had to have their stomachs pumped. People under the influence are a danger to themselves and those around them. Alcohol should be illegal just like any othe drug.
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    Name: Randy Read on Nov 2, 2004
    State: OH
    Country: US
    Comments: ban all alcohol and alcoholic drinks in all bowling alleys in ohio
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    Name: Kim Boke on Nov 14, 2004
    State: LA
    Country: US
    Comments: I want the ban.
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    Name: Samantha Yeager on Mar 17, 2005
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: i think to ban alcohol would be the best thing america could do
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  10. Name: Tony Lucas on May 1, 2005
    State:
    Country: UK
    Comments: i totally agree with you alcohol has no use to mankind
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    Name: Bronson Brown on May 31, 2005
    State: WV
    Country: US
    Comments: my girlfriend was an alcoholic and she was very bad and stuff and i helped her in finding the light and quitting..that is the worst thing to do is to start drinking.
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    Name: JAMES WINTHER on Jun 12, 2005
    State: LA
    Country: US
    Comments: AS A POLICE OFFICER I SEE WHAT THE DRUG!!! ALCOHOL CAND DO. IT GOES WHAY BEYOND DRUNK DRIVING.
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  14. Name: Jonathan Tipton on Jun 18, 2005
    State: NC
    Country: US
    Comments: Ban it completely. People will learn to live without it. Praise Jesus. He delivers and makes us strong.
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  15. 93
    Name: Jeremy Hibdon on Jun 21, 2005
    State: VA
    Country: US
    Comments: Both my parents brains have been pickled like eggs.
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    Name: Daryl Thomas on Jun 22, 2005
    State: MI
    Country: US
    Comments: alcohol has never passed my lips and I am in my mid twentys. Only weak people need to replace chemical synaptical inpulses with alcohol.
  17. Name: Andrew Pleva on Jul 2, 2005
    State: WI
    Country: US
    Comments: alcohol has no place in the united states

    Name: William Wamhoff on Jul 17, 2005
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol is the DEVIL
  18. 109
    Name: Jeff L on Sep 12, 2005
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: I hate alcohol and it should be banned. There is not one good thing that comes from it. It has destroyed my life and millions of others. It is pointless and stupid and just causes problems such as rape, vandalism, cancer, death, drunk driving and many other illnesses and problems. Please ban alcohol and save this society.
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    Name: Mohamed Hassan on Oct 7, 2005
    State:
    Country: KE
    Comments: may i wake up one day to see the whole world denouncing the consumption and production of alcohol.
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  20. 115
    Name: Howie Sooley on Oct 23, 2005
    State:
    Country: CA
    Comments: This week my friend went home drunk, got into a fight with his dad, went out of his house and shot himself. I don't want this to happen to anybody else. I know that the drinking is not all to blame but if he wasn't drinking I don't think he would have got into a fight with his dad. He was only 17 years old thats to young to die. Anyway I just want the stuff to be banned from pruduction and especially from store shelves.
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  21. 116
    Name: James Cann on Oct 26, 2005
    State:
    Country: AU
    Comments: Find a new way to tax us before you kill another generation of youths
  22. 120
    Name: Sam DeRenzis on Nov 20, 2005
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol sucks!
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  23. 121
    Name: Tracey Stephenson on Nov 22, 2005
    State: MI
    Country: US
    Comments: All alcohol should be banned from anyone and everyone who has any alcohol violations on their licence or knowingly has a problem. Should be banned all together. I dont need it and you cannot be happy drinking it. Alcohol is the root of all family problems which leads to money problems, loss of jobs, loss of family and kids, loss of self control, loss of your life in the end.
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    Name: Crystalline Verrill on Dec 5, 2005
    State: ME
    Country: US
    Comments: i agree, why when it is so harmful is it legal
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  25. 125
    Name: Nasser Alomran on Dec 6, 2005
    State:
    Country: KW
    Comments: Ban it, time to forget about it, time to erase its existance.
  26. 132
    Name: Stuart Smith on Jan 22, 2006
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: It ruins lives, like drugs. Only alcohol seems to be endorsed by everyone.
  27. 135
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 1, 2006
    State: AK
    Country: US
    Comments: Please Ban it, the world is much better without it. my wife died after 8 years of excessive drinkage due to liver cancer. please ban alcohol and beer and make this world a better place to live in.
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  28. 136
    Name: Sherry Pitts on Feb 8, 2006
    State: KY
    Country: US
    Comments: yea , they fuss and fuss about smkers, but the big dogs are the real drinkers so they wont do nothing about that
  29. 140
    Name: AJ Jauhar on Feb 27, 2006
    State:
    Country: UK
    Comments: ban it ban it ban it!
  30. 144
    Name: Has An Education on Mar 15, 2006
    State: IA
    Country: US
    Comments: Those that legitimately sign this petition have obviously ceased all real, cognitive thought. Those that suffer from the negative affects of alcohol have abused it. It is not the government's, nor your, job to play morality police, either. There are many problems much more terrible than a glass of wine plaguing the world. Maybe your efforts would be more beneficial for the billions of starving people across the globe. Oh, but I guess that you all have other things to do such as banning the use of profanity or, better yet, how about a petition to prohibit dancing and laughter. Besides the entertainment factor of alcohol, it also provides citizens ofcountries with poor water quality to consume water without becoming ill.
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  31. 145
    Name: Robert Parrish on Mar 17, 2006
    State: TN
    Country: US
    Comments: alcohol is stupid and gay only faggots drink it. ban this shit b4 u DIE
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  32. 146
    Name: Johnny Allen on Mar 18, 2006
    State: TN
    Country: US
    Comments: I honestly think that alcohol should be banned. A few reasons why, is because: I know people who can be the most nicest people in the world, and when they drink they get violent. And drinking is childish anyways. I have tried it once or twice, and I honestly didn't like it. It was stupid. Also it's a waste of money. Im tired of seeing people, and families hurt, and torn apart because of the stupid crap. It's just rediculous.
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  33. 147
    Name: Jason Anderson on Mar 18, 2006
    State: TN
    Country: US
    Comments: I fully %100 support this petition. Alcohol should be banned. There is no use for it at all. Just an excuse to "solve" your problems in your sober world, which you need to fix yourself, alcohol is just wasting people's lives away instead.
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  34. 148
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 25, 2006
    State: NJ
    Country: AU
    Comments: i hate alchhol it makes people vilent and wrecks peoples lifes
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  35. 149
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 27, 2006
    State: MS
    Country: US
    Comments: Ban alchohol!
  36. Name: Brett Haigh on May 17, 2006
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: Ban alcohol: There's more interesting ways to die.
  37. 162
    Name: Anonymous on May 25, 2006
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: I have watched my husband drink to where he stumbles, slur his words and act like a total fool. If there's no alcohol, there's no drunks.
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  38. 163
    Name: Colin Ziemer on Jun 2, 2006
    State: NJ
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol is the devil disguised in a beverage
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  39. 164
    Name: Anonymous on Jun 2, 2006
    State:
    Country: AU
    Comments: I'm straight edge and I don't like watching the deteriation of my friends, family and general society. Good luck and I wish the change could occur in Australia.
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    Name: Victor Molinas-Booth on Jun 20, 2006
    State: WA
    Country: US
    Comments: Finally, a petition I agree with. They need to go after alcohol much more than cigarettes. All these Truth commercials get on my nerves. They always go after cigarettes, but never after alcohol. Alcohol is much more damaging to the body than cigarettes and illigal drugs combined.
  41. 171
    Name: Anonymous on Jul 3, 2006
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: Alcohol Out!
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  43. 173
    Name: Dave Mullins on Jul 14, 2006
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: Can't stand the stuff!
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  44. 174
    Name: Zeinab Addam on Jul 27, 2006
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: Thank you for this site....I am constructing a paper based on why America should reban alcohol and this has further inspired me.....alcohol has no use........if even for medicinal reasons there are alternatives and it is just as bad as any illegal drug.
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    Name: Anonymous on Jul 30, 2006
    State: MT
    Country: US
    Comments: I live in Montana and have never seen such a problem elsewhere. Everyday there are dui arrests, domestic violence, and fights due to the high anount of alcoholics in this state. I think that Marajuana should be more legal than alcohol.
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  47. Name: Brian Lacharite on Aug 10, 2006
    State: VT
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol ruins lives
  48. 180
    Name: Grady Youngblood on Aug 23, 2006
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: it is dangeous
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  49. 181
    Name: Paul Burns on Aug 23, 2006
    State: MI
    Country: US
    Comments: Getting rid of ALL alcoholic beverages would be a blessing. Just like state and local governments are putting the smokers through hell by crusifying them, the drunks and ascoholics should be put through the same agony. Alcohol causes nothing but agony for the families and friends of the drinkers and misory for everyone else. I SAY BRING BACK PROABITION! GET RID OF ALL THESE STINKING DRUNKS AND GET RID OF ALL THE ALCOHOL ADVERTISING THAT RUNS 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK. IF THE ALCOHOL COMPANIES THINK THAT KIDS AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION TO THEIR AD'S THEY'RE KIDDING THEMSELVES.
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  50. Name: Matt Chunerly on Sep 27, 2006
  51. State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: yyoou must ban this evil mind altering drug for everyones health
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  52. 185
    Name: Anonymous on Oct 2, 2006
    State:
    Country: CA
    Comments: Can't tolerate alcohol in this society much longer... Can't seem to keep my cool around these people anymore...
  53. 187
    Name: Bill Epperson on Oct 8, 2006
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: please, save what's left of our future. our children should not have to make the same mistakes we did...
  54. 194
    Name: Nate Bass on Nov 16, 2006
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: i hate alcohol it will be the down fall of mankind.
  55. Name: Anonymous on Nov 20, 2006
    State: KY
    Country: GB
    Comments: Get this horrible drug banned NOW!
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  56. 198
    Name: Anonymous on Nov 20, 2006
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: alcohl is the devil
  57. Name: Anonymous on Dec 5, 2006
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: This is the way to contribute to a better world.
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  58. 203
    Name: Levi Le Lievre on Dec 10, 2006
    State:
    Country: NZ
    Comments: alchohol is the worst drug known to man!! ban it!!! words can not describe my hate for it!!!
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  59. 204
    Name: Anonymous on Dec 14, 2006
    State:
    Country: AU
    Comments: we definately need to stop all advitisement of alcohol, like they have done for ciggarettes. its a start!
  60. 212
    Name: Denise Roberson on Jan 16, 2007
    State: WA
    Country: US
    Comments: I agree alcohol is a horrible drug and should be abolished I can't believe it is legal when we hear all the time what problems it causes I think the government feels the money is more important than lives, money is the root of all evil.
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  61. 213
    Name: Rita D. on Jan 18, 2007
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol should be banned!
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  63. Name: William Dawkins on Feb 1, 2007
    State: GA
    Country: US
    Comments: At 15 I lost my two best friends to drunk driving. My wife's family has been virtually destroyed due to alcohol. My own family has dealt with alcohol related issues. Now, at 28, another good friend has died in a drunk driving incident. Enough!
  64. 217
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 8, 2007
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: And the ban should last forever and the conciqences of drinking will be cruel and unsualal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  65. 218
    Name: Lawrence Doria on Feb 15, 2007
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: To all you imature people saying that it is a good thing...wait till someone you know gets killed from a drunk driver.
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  66. 219
    Name: Lawrence Doria on Feb 15, 2007
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: To all you imature people saying that it is a good thing...wait till someone you know gets killed from a drunk driver.
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    Name: Tony Lucas on Feb 22, 2007
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: i agree with your comments on alcohol the only reason alcohol is still legal and not banned is because of the ammount of money goverments make of taxation,of alcohol they have no concerns as to the effects of alcohol consumption as it is also very profitable for them people being fined for the behaviour or imprisoned it all adds up to more money for them in england alone the goverment get 15 billion per year of alcohol tax thats without all the crime and misery and property damage that is why i have decided to stop drinking you should recomend others do the same muslims are not allowed or permmitted to drink alcohol as it says in the koran as revealed to mohammed pbuh 1400 years ago money rules this sick world and the goverments of the world dont care about alcohol's effects on people because it makes them billions of pounds dollars euro's etc yen etc
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  68. 221
    Name: Candi Christine on Feb 25, 2007
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I hate what it's done to my family.
  69. 223
    Name: Jordan Yanev on Mar 1, 2007
    State: WA
    Country: US
    Comments: Hmmm but its so much fun and entertaining! who cares about drunk driving,drunken spouse/child abuse,drunk date rape, alcoholism, and fetal alcohol syndrome, oh wait i do my bad
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  70. 224
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 5, 2007
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: If smack is illegal, alcohol should be too. Only reason it's still here is because governments make so much money from it. CUT THEIR TAXES ONE BY ONE, DON'T STOP UNTIL THE JOB IS DONE.
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  71. 225
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 5, 2007
    State:
    Country: CA
    Comments: ALCHOOL IS STUPID! BAN IT! It's the devils work
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  72. 226
    Name: Heavena Rayan on Mar 7, 2007
    State:
    Country: IN
    Comments: When will people realise that it is one of the biggest evils existing today
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  73. 227
    Name: Luke Thomas on Mar 8, 2007
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: Please, society cant take any more suffering.
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  74. 228
    Name: Sam Sherwin on Mar 10, 2007
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: I'm glad I am not alone for what I stand for.
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  75. 229
    Name: Max Bogard on Mar 13, 2007
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol is actually a worse drug than marijuana, which also should be banned
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  76. 230
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 15, 2007
    State: CT
    Country: US
    Comments: I have never consumed alcohol because i know what it can do to you and also because i am a Muslim. Alcohol takes over you and causes crime, violence, and poor health!!!
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  77. 231
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 16, 2007
    State: NM
    Country: US
    Comments: I have a relative that works as a Law Enforcement and he has seen so many DWI suits and we severly need to ban alcohol, because of its effects of the human mind and what that human under the influence can cause. Innocent families every year are killed by someone who gets in their car after binge drinking or just a casual sitting. Please sign this and let's get rid of this sinful potent product.
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    Name: Austin Arel on Mar 20, 2007
    State:
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohal sucks!!!!
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  79. Name: Heather Johnson on Apr 6, 2007
    State: VA
    Country: US
    Comments: I hate alcohol. It ruins everyone life! It crushes, marriages, and all other relationships. My boyfriend is 19 years ols and he is addicted. I hate it. I have been with him 2 and a half years now so I can't just leave him. His parents are just as bad so I am the only positive influence in his life. I think that only way to stop this is to BAN ALCOHOL for goog. Alcohol is NO BETTER than illegal drugs, NO BETTER!!
  80. 245
    Name: Gavin Wong on Apr 9, 2007
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: Bad bad bad
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  81. 246
    Name: Anonymous on Apr 9, 2007
    State: GA
    Country: US
    Comments: I am mostly upset that it isn't considered a drug, and I am afraid that it is legal while other drugs are illegal because companies profit from it. People are killed all the time from bad decisions made while under the influence. It is time the politicians wake up.
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  82. 247
    Name: Anonymous on Apr 11, 2007
    State: NM
    Country: US
    Comments: Society would be better of if people would focus on healthy endavors. Indeed, society as a whole would be more developed.
  83. Name: Omer Aziz on May 2, 2007
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: Please put an end to this desease that is destroying our societies. As far as I see it, drinking is the root cause of all the mishap is taking place in our world.
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  85. Name: Anonymous on May 5, 2007
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: First off, let me say that I am not a neoconservative nutjob. I am extremely far to the left on just about every issue - except this one. I have never experienced death due to the evils of alcohol, though I have seen what it does to people and do not wish to see any more. My mother's family has a bit of a history of addiction to various substances. My aunt recently lost her job of many years due to about two years of alcohol abuse, although, thank God, she is recovering now, has another job, and is doing much better. I personally feel that my own mother is on that path also, something that I hope desperately I am incorrect about. My grandmother on my mom's side, a former alcoholic and smoker, has been fully recovered for many years from the aforementioned illnesses, and is just about my only ally, if you will, on that side of the family. In my short life, I have seen enough of alcohol. I am sick and tired of it. I am sick of people being someone other than themselves until they wake up in the morning. I am sick of special moments in time being lost in the minds of some of the ones that they were shared with. Mostly, I am sick of alcohol related deaths. Alcohol is a poison, just as poisonous if not more than any drug that you would but illegally on the black market. Unfortunately, it has gained a complete acceptance in the modern media, and people don't seem to care about it any more. It is treated as something that everyone does, and only outcasts don't. I agree with posts prior to my own, that the first step is to lock down on all alcohol advertising, particularly on the internet and on television. Personally, as a Christian as well, it is troubling to me to see the human body destroyed by mind-altering substances for the sake of a (very) temporary euphoria. My main concern against alcohol, however, comes not from being a Christian, nor a liberal Democrat, nor any other label you could use on me. As a human, I look out and see the other humans on the planet destroying themselves with alcohol. I look out and see people dying every single say from alcohol. It is time for that to stop.
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    Name: Anonymous on May 6, 2007
    State: NE
    Country: BA
    Comments: Please put an end to Alcohol.
  87. 268
    Name: Anonymous on Jun 3, 2007
    State:
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol cause my father to be abusive, neglectful, have major depression, anxiety, and put our family in debt because of his addiction. This is a man made drug that SHOULD be illegal.
  88. 276
    Name: Anonymous on Jun 18, 2007
    State: AZ
    Country: US
    Comments: Thank You for taking the time to address this major issue.
  89. 283
    Name: Julie English on Jun 25, 2007
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: Can you think of anything positive that alcohol has done for us Besides making your pain go away for the moment (so drunks think)... ALCOHOL KILLS! Kills innocent victims....
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  90. 284
    Name: Anonymous on Jun 26, 2007
    State: VA
    Country: US
    Comments: The sooner the better.
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  91. 285
    Name: Cory Royce on Jun 29, 2007
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: I agree with you,totally and completly.As a Christian I have been trying to find a way to ban alchohol.God bless you in your efforts.
  92. 288
    Name: Anonymous on Jul 6, 2007
    State: KY
    Country: US
    Comments: Husband, had close Aunt, Uncle, wife of cousin,and their infant child all killed by drunken driver. Alcohol is also dangerous to the user's health and the surrounding people and their property.
  93. Name: Anonymous on Jul 13, 2007
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: Alcohol advertising should now be banned as tobacco advertising has been.
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  95. Name: Raj Khosa on Jul 19, 2007
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: i agree with all of the above statement...alcohol is a DRUG...
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  96. 296
    Name: Jacob SEars on Jul 19, 2007
    State: AL
    Country: US
    Comments: Above comments are enough
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  97. 297
    Name: Christopher Howse on Jul 21, 2007
    State:
    Country: CA
    Comments: It's about time is all I can say!
  98. 300
    Name: Mike Seska on Aug 15, 2007
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: I lost my sister to a drunk driver. After this incident my father kept drinking and eventually died of liver cancer. This is why I say screw liquor, and it should be banned. If you would like to contact me please email me at mseska2@uic.edu.
  99. Name: James Cunningham on Aug 16, 2007
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: Alcohol is a drug!
  100. 304
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 1, 2007
    State: IN
    Country: US
    Comments: I think alcohol should be banned. It causes people to do things that they wouldn't normally do. BAN IT!!
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  102. Name: Adam Perks on Sep 13, 2007
    State:
    Country: CA
    Comments: I wholeheartedly agree with this petition. Alcohol ruins lives and it shouldn't be tolerated anymore.
  103. 309
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 18, 2007
    State:
    Country: IE
    Comments: Alcohol has caused damage to members of my family. I hate it.
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  104. Name: Emma Butcher on Sep 24, 2007
    State:
    Country:
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    Name: Nick P on Oct 1, 2007
    State:
    Country: AU
    Comments: I agree. Away with the stuff. We are a civilization stupid enough to poison ourselves and unless we act soon we are going to suffer the consequences, as we already evidently are.
  106. Name: Jessica Horne on Oct 4, 2007
  107. State: AL
    Country: US
    Comments: alcohol has distrude my life and i am only 15 i do not drink it but my father does and it has distrude my familys lives.
  108. Name: Anonymous on Oct 10, 2007
    State: UT
    Country: US
    Comments: It's time to ban alcohol for good!
  109. Name: Samudra Mount on Oct 12, 2007
    State: HI
    Country: US
    Comments: Why is the media only focusing on banning smoking
  110. Name: NiQolas Smith on Oct 16, 2007
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: having only ever really consumed alcohol as a younger person and seen what it can do to my moods and how it affects behaviour in general, if I never saw or heard about it again, I would be very happy indeed....
  111. Name: Kevin Ward on Oct 20, 2007
    State:
    Country: AU
    Comments: Ban it today it kills more people than illegal drugs and road accidents combined.
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  112. 326
    Name: Glenn Reisher on Oct 22, 2007
    State:
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol has almost ruined my relationsip twice--and I have never had any! Sure, that might only be because I was only against underaged (I'm only 16) but since the first time my girlfriend decided to try it, her morals about it (once the same about underaged) have completely shifted, to the point where she no longer knows why it bothers me (so much that we had a fight over her wanting to drink, but not near getting drunk, at her friend's 21st. She didn't at all). The world would be better without alcohol.
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    Name: Edward Iacono on Oct 26, 2007
    State: NJ
    Country: US
    Comments: I agree . . . alcohol is a very dangerous substance that takes more lives than cancer every year. The most dangerous aspects of our vices should be the ones that are removed from it.
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  114. 328
    Name: Chris Watkins on Oct 27, 2007
    State: IN
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol is a drug. What good has really come of it
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    Name: Anonymous on Nov 11, 2007
    State: MI
    Country: US
    Comments: This would be the best thing to happen in years. No more alcohol means no more deaths to drunk driving or drunks anywhere, no more bars, or store selling it. would be a dream come true.
  118. 339
    Name: Anonymous on Nov 15, 2007
    State:
    Country: AU
    Comments: Users of alcohol are distugusting and irresponsible people. THey believe alcohol is fun but it will only make them look like idiots who will go no where in life except the gutter. It also angers me to be called stupid for not drinking where it is they who are the stupid ones. When the day comes that their life is ruined by alcohol, I will be the first to laugh at them.
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  119. 340
    Name: Christopher Brown on Nov 23, 2007
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: My father died from a stroke in 2002 which was attributed to excessive consumption of alcohol. From 2005-2007, I myself fell into the alcohol trap, but I now regret the amount of time that I wasted and the hurt it caused my brother and have given up completely.
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  120. 341
    Name: Jake Rens on Nov 27, 2007
    State: MN
    Country: US
    Comments: I know that not everyone abuses alcohol, but enough problems come from it to make it worth banning.
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  121. 342
    Name: Anonymous on Nov 27, 2007
    State: UT
    Country: GB
    Comments: I agree with this petition
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  122. 343
    Name: Anonymous on Dec 4, 2007
    State:
    Country: AU
    Comments: alcohol is just as bad as drugs and should be a ban on it, if it was good enough to ban drugs then ban alcohol too, if not then bring back the drug's then.
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    Name: Bethani Kean on Dec 5, 2007
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: i want to ban it because on th 3rd of december my mum died and im only 11 and my little sister is only 6 and it was heart breaking to find out she was dead:-(
  125. 347
    Name: Robert Berger on Dec 14, 2007
    State: CO
    Country: US
    Comments: I am 30 years old. I cant stop drinking, I have done one year of rehab, AA, and various medications to stop drinking. Alcohol needs to be removed from socity. the 10% that can drink and "not have a probem" good for them but the other 90% that are slowlwy dieing it needs to dissapear. Out of all the years I have been drinking i have not seen ONE good thing come out of alcohol!
  126. Name: Najib Rahman on Dec 29, 2007
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: A ban on alcohol is neccessary
  127. Name: David Maskell on Dec 30, 2007
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: It is horrible to see someone kill themselves slowly with alcohol addiction, it ruins their lives, other people's lives and I believe it serves no useful purpose at all!
  128. 356
    Name: Andrew Chew on Jan 17, 2008
    State:
    Country: SG
    Comments: Alcohol has far more bad points than good. The world would be a much better place without it.
  129. 361
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 1, 2008
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: During my teens I drank alcohol excessively. I failed my exams at school, probably have caused long-term damage to my liver and millions of my brain cells. I upset everyone in my life and everyone around me. I damaged property, I was violent, I caused so much hurt to those who cared for me and to myself. My own choices, but I don't think I was aware of the full extent consequences around drinking alcohol. Who is when they're 13, 14 Most adults don't even realize it. As a grown woman I suffer from depression, anxiety, paranoia, emotional instability and dependency. I believe this is all completely and directly related to the consumption of alcohol in my youth. I wish this substance had been illegal and that I had never touched it in my life, because it has almost destroyed me. Also, my father is an alcoholic but fortunately is in recovery, however he is in a place rehabilitation and doesn't get to see his family regularly. I have lost several relatives due to alcoholism on both sides of my family. This is the most horrible of all drugs purely because it is legal which gives people a false sense of safety when they are consuming it! People think they are doing something completely normal when they go out on a Friday/Saturday night and drink 20+ units of alcohol but they are causing massive damage to themselves and often others! There needs to be more awareness about the dangers of this drug and the only way we can do this is by making it illegal because this is the only way people are ever going to get the message. It hurts me to know that there are going to be millions of other youngsters doing what I did and regretting it as much as I do later on in life.. it's just not right. How can our governments allow this to happen Something needs to be done.
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  131. Name: Shayna T on Feb 14, 2008
  132. State: AZ
    Country: US
    Comments: its a baddd thing
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  133. 367
    Name: Omar Salem on Feb 17, 2008
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: I'm a Muslim and I totally agree with your statement that we should ban alchol!!
  134. 372
    Name: Anonymous Anonymous on Feb 21, 2008
    State:
    Country: NZ
    Comments: sick and tired of the drinking culture in new zealand. I use to drink alot. i enjoyed it alot, but i know it was doing me damage at the same time. BAN ALCOHOL!
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  135. 373
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 24, 2008
    State: OR
    Country: US
    Comments: Please ban alcohol
  136. 376
    Name: Anonymous on Mar 11, 2008
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: Please ban alcohol.
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  138. Name: Anonymous on Mar 21, 2008
    State:
    Country: US
    Comments: ban it
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  139. 380
    Name: Steve Mohr on Apr 9, 2008
    State:
    Country: AU
    Comments: Excellent website, thank God there are a few sensible people left in the world!
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  140. 381
    Name: K. Brown on Apr 10, 2008
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: I think alcohol is one of the worst things ever created. It's ruined my life and the lives of countless others in one way or another. Alcohol is not 'cool' or 'hip' it just kills.
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  141. 382
    Name: Robert Winston on Apr 20, 2008
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: I agree.
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  143. Name: Anonymous on Apr 21, 2008
    State: OH
    Country: US
    Comments: i hate drunk drivers one killed my friend
  144. 389
    Name: Roxanne Jungclaus on May 3, 2008
    State: MN
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol killed my son on March 20, 2008 He was 33 years old. Alcohol is one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs around, and it's legal!!
  145. 394
    Name: Anonymous on May 21, 2008
    State:
    Country: IN
    Comments: Are our lawmakers blind to all the ill effects of alcohol
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    Name: Chris James on Jun 7, 2008
  147. State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: Alcohol has ruined both the lives of my family and my friends, as well as my own. Why do some people think it is the only way to have a good time Once you have been off alcohol for long enough you find that you have so much more creativity to enjoy a natural life.
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    Name: Kevin M. on Jun 9, 2008
    State: GA
    Country: US
    Comments: We make online gambling, prostitution, etc. illegal, yet alcohol has created more deaths and issues than many problems combined.
  149. Name: Anonymous on Jun 11, 2008
    State: AL
    Country: US
    Comments: We need to make a stand
  151. 403
    Name: Anonymous on Jun 18, 2008
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: 17 year old step-son of an alcoholic who passed away today. RIP Rob, always remembered.
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  153. Name: Fatima Alm on Jul 8, 2008
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: alcohol is worse than drugs
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  154. Name: Joseph Bowman on Aug 19, 2008
  155. State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: I suffered from under-age alcoholism, and forced myself to recover. It is a struggle each and every day being surrounded by an alcohol driven society.
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  156. 415
    Name: Jason Christiansen on Aug 19, 2008
    State: UT
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol is a poison, pure and simple. Alcohol consumption serves no good purpose, and is a foolish, self-destructive act. We cannot progress as a society with such a scourge in our midst.
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  158. 427
    Name: Chelsea Burke on Oct 28, 2008
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol solves only causes problems and solves none
  159. 436
    Name: Trish Hayes on Feb 17, 2009
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: I have lost so many family members and friends because of alcohol directly and indirectly. I would like to see it banned in the U.S.
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  160. 437
    Name: Melinda Collins on Mar 3, 2009
    State: MI
    Country: US
    Comments: It is time to stop the insanity... Alcohol has no good place in this world.
  161. 440
    Name: Anonymous on Apr 15, 2009
    State:
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol should be banned, along with smoking, snuff, just everything that hurts people in the long run.
  162. 444
    Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2009
    State: CO
    Country: US
    Comments: I dont see any benefit in alcohol to the human race, Most drugs are much safer then alcohol and stricly outlawed. I say yes to some drugs and no to dangerous alcohol.
  163. 446
    Name: Jackie Paulson on Jun 2, 2009
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: In honor of David Seyller.
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  164. 447
    Name: Raymond Pettigrew on Jun 16, 2009
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: I am having some relationship problems caused by alcohol and it tears me apart watching people i care about ill, drunk, violent, argue, or cause the death of an innocent human.
  166. 449
    Name: Pair Of Pants on Jun 16, 2009
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: I agree, we need to get rid of the disgusting evil drink
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  167. 450
    Name: Mrs Doodles on Jun 16, 2009
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: We at www.diabolik.tv support this petition
  168. Name: Wiggy On Air on Jun 16, 2009
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: I agree, time to call a halt to this foulness
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  169. 453
    Name: Stoatie The Queer on Jun 16, 2009
    State:
    Country: RU
    Comments: ban ittttttttttttt
  170. 457
    Name: Bethaneeeey Teen Mom on Jun 16, 2009
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: Alcohol is bad, I got pregnant at 11 because of alcohol and now I am so addicted I spend all day making up problems so people will help me with my attention seeking problems
  171. 461
    Name: Anonymous on Jul 3, 2009
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: Alcohol should be banned, it is terrible.
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  172. 462
    Name: Robert Labandeira on Jul 4, 2009
    State: VA
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol is a sin that must be purged from this planet. Humans die from alcohol related diseases every day. Man must realize the horror this drug will ruin this civilization.
  174. 467
    Name: Brooks Woodward on Jul 20, 2009
    State: NE
    Country: US
    Comments: Alcohol changes the natural way people should think and it has ruined many of lifes including mine.
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  176. Name: Marylynn Cotten on Aug 5, 2009
    State: TN
    Country: US
    Comments: I personally believe after finding out that my husband is an alcoholic that alcohol is just as bad if not worse than drugs! Alcohol is very addictive and after becoming addicted it affects everyone in that persons life in a very negative way while killing that person slowly. I pray to God one day that people see alcohol is one of the many roots of evil and if banned look at how many people,families, and lives would be saved !!!! Help the Fight!!
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    Name: Jeffrey Clarke on Sep 27, 2009
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: My car was totaled by a drunk driver and I am lucky to be alive. It is about time something be done about alcohol to prevent anyone else from having the same experience or worse.
  179. 489
    Name: Cory W on Oct 17, 2009
    State: OH
    Country: US
    Comments: Please follow through with this....
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  180. 490
    Name: Ali Raja on Oct 22, 2009
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: my comments are as follows alcohol is mother of all evils which opens the door for all evils as we are witness to today ban alcohol then watch the crime decrease dramatically
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    Name: Alphonse Caponi on Nov 2, 2009
    State: IL
    Country: US
    Comments: I for one find it very surprising that the US government has never considered banning liquor before. That stuff is evil. There should be an ammendment to the constitution banning it outright!
  182. Name: Devan Fields on Nov 27, 2009
    State: KY
    Country: US
    Comments: At 6 years old, I lost my father due to severe drinking and cirrhosis of the liver, he was 27 years old. In 2005, a drunk driver killed my aunt. In 2008, I was sexually abused by 4 guys because I passed out drunk and now Nov. 2009, I almost lost my 20 year old brother due to alcohol poisoning!
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    Name: A M on Dec 5, 2009
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: Its satans handiwork! ban it!
  184. Name: Anonymous on Jan 26, 2010
    State: Maryland
    Country: United States
    Comments: Alcohol does nothing but ruin lives, families, relationships with others, and cause harm to one's body. It's a drug just like cocaine or meth and should be banned as well.
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  185. 512
    Name: Jai Jagai on Jan 26, 2010
    State:
    Country: Canada
    Comments: Alcohol destroys families and lives
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  186. 513
    Name: Matthew Wasilewski on Jan 26, 2010
    State: Illinois
    Country: United States
    Comments: alcohol is bad
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  188. 516
    Name: Amen on Feb 25, 2010
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: BAN IT PLS. It's bad for u.
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  189. 517
    Name: Cynthia OEnga on Feb 25, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: I agree totally and fully, with no objections. The world would be abetter place without alcohol, there really is no need for it, it causes more bad than goodnowadays. And quite frankly its is used as an excuse for some of the worst human behaivior possible ( a viable excuse in many cases). In the past it was drank because it was afer to than water which was difficult to filter......now its used as a means to intoxicate oneself, and fool the mind, confuse the senses and defile personal morals.
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  190. 518
    Name: Karen Kirk on Feb 27, 2010
    State: Wisconsin
    Country: United States
    Comments: Alcohol is a drug. A drug is a drug. Monitor Alcohol like sudafed.
  191. 523
    Name: Tabatha Vassey on Mar 16, 2010
    State: New Jersey
    Country: United States
    Comments: I think the world could be a better place with the hardcore liquor. Then there will be no more driving under the influence. Or drinking and driving deaths. And or drunken raping. I have lost friends due to this. And I want it to stop.
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    Name: Bruno Spatola on Mar 26, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: Alcohol has never, and will never aid anyone, it can never truly comfort anyone of anything. It causes the same problems for the others around them, who you don't see pouring another glass of wine to take the edge off. I have a degenerative disease, at 18, and I am not expected to live for long. That isn't what angers me, it's that the time I have left with those I love is wasted on Alcohol. Those are just the mental side-effects of Alcohol for people who DON'T drink. Every single person on both sides of my family drink it except me, that is about 40 people. My father drove his car through a building under the influence, City Hall for that matter. I am just scratching the surface of why it is bad, and it's laughable how the most sensible member of the family is so young, having been brought up around alcohol. It was offered to me as early as 10 years old by my own father, and later many times by my older sister. Just ban it, it's wasting resources, taking lives that were ruined by it already and destroying relationships.
  193. 528
    Name: Anonymous on Apr 11, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: I am for banning it altogether it's evil stuff. Dangerous to the world.
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  194. 529
    Name: Clara on Apr 19, 2010
    State: Michigan
    Country: United States
    Comments: I think they should really sto[p it beacause people die from all the alcohol that goes into there body and some die in there sleep due to them vomiting in choking with there own vomit
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  195. 530
    Name: John J. Kilpatrick on Apr 20, 2010
    State: Illinois
    Country: United States
    Comments: Ban Alcohol Consumption
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  196. 531
    Name: Sheryl A. Kilpatrick on Apr 20, 2010
    State: Illinois
    Country: United States
    Comments: Ban Alcohol Consumption
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  197. 532
    Name: Jake Eddison-Cook on Apr 20, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: Alcohol should be forbidden! Wrath is perhaps the greatest of all sins, the sin into which all other sins become and wrath is fueled by alcohol. (ps I'm not religious, it's just a great analogy). I understand that there are social occasions in which alcohol is acceptable, but why should it be? What is the point? There is no benefit - only costs. We spend billions on the effect of alcohol - we need to fix it.
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  200. 536
    Name: Mofojul on Apr 27, 2010
    State:
    Country: Bangladesh
    Comments: the quicker the better
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  203. 541
    Name: Joe Depp on May 19, 2010
    State: Kansas
    Country: United States
    Comments: Shame that a harmless thing like marijuana is illegal, yet this monstrous drink is allowed to be consumed by the masses! Ban alcohol, save lives!
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  204. 542
    Name: Andz on May 22, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: It makes me feel sick when I see anyone drinking, and I am sad for all of the lost people out there, slaves to alcohol. Even as a 12 yearold, who hasn't encountered alcohol yet, I am sick of the people who I meet with everyday at school, going out at weekends to get AS DRUNK AS POSSIBLE. These drinks that have high alcohol level make me cry out in anger. The profitability is endless, yet the company doesn't give a [four letter word] about the customer.
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  205. 543
    Name: Karma Tsering on May 25, 2010
    State:
    Country: Canada
    Comments: ban the alcohol. it creates problems for people who doesn't have control over it.
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  206. 544
    Name: Atul Bal on May 25, 2010
    State:
    Country: India
    Comments: Liquor / Alcoholic beverages are considered as a 'Social Evil' Majority do not consume alcohol. It is more the reason that we care for such majority and stop producing/dispensing alcoholic beverages. It is a Potential threat to children. Ladies and elders, well to any one! After consumption of liquor, the drinker may loose control on his/her behavior that may lead to latent danger children. ladies and elders. Demonstration of alcoholism by select few is done in a manner that it appears to be manly though alcohol consumption degrades mind, body and soul. Such false manly projections tempt young ones to join the band wagon. Liquor may actually detract from the actual purpose of the life. It could actually be counterproductive to our goals of living a healthy life for self and others who matter to us. Drinker gets high after consuming alcohol. In effect, fellows may become target of his/her frustrations which do not remain in his/her control. Abuses, shouting and uncalled for remarks become common phenomenon. By convention, a mistake of an alcoholic is ignored. 'Well he is drunk...' type attitude is commonly observed which causes an uncomfortable situation for fellows. It is bad for health. Government should be concerned about the health of the citizens.
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  207. 545
    Name: Anonymous on May 31, 2010
    State: New York
    Country: United States
    Comments: Alchohol kills millions of people in drunk driving
  208. 547
    Name: Dmitri Kalinin on Jun 8, 2010
    State: New York
    Country: United States
    Comments: BAN THIS SHIT
  209. 550
    Name: Rajdeep Singh Khosa on Jun 18, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: Alcohol affects people who do not drink. I am really pleased to see this.
  210. Name: Thomas Robinson on Jun 23, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: I hate alcohol it makes good people bad and its terrible should be banned forever can cause bad symptons including death
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  211. 552
    Name: Mark Mclaughlin on Jun 26, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: Where is the logic in drinking toilet cleaner?...
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  212. 553
    Name: Anonymous on Jul 1, 2010
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: FUCK ALCOHOL, get rid of that shit! i approve this message.
  213. 557
    Name: Eilis Conneally on Jul 10, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: Alcohol is awful.It has ruined my family
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  214. 558
    Name: James A. Prendergast on Jul 13, 2010
    State:
    Country: Canada
    Comments: My sister has suffered brain damage from Alcohol consumption and from being beaten by her drunken husband. She may never recover.
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  215. 559
    Name: Anonymous on Jul 25, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: I fully agree with this entire petition, and you have my support.
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  216. 560
    Name: BIDBOX on Jul 27, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: Alcohol is an evil drug, there is no question about it. We live in a society which accepts - and to some extent advocates - its use. Use of a drug that causes death and destruction, breeds violence, abuse and neglect. The drug that's responsible for ruining millions of people's lives and that of their families for years afterwards. The drug that drains our economy, saturates our health service and ruins the future of humanity. We continue to use this drug - the WORST of all drugs - as our governments continue to allow it to be used freely, so long as it is a taxable product, but which ultimately contributes nothing to our society yet takes everything from it. This is not scaremogering. This is the truth.
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  217. 561
    Name: Aidan Adams on Jul 28, 2010
    State: Wyoming
    Country: United States
    Comments: my dad drinks and i am fed up with it. it is a horrible reason, why should some have a few hours of fun while others suffer?
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  218. 562
    Name: Joey Biggs on Jul 30, 2010
    State: California
    Country: Ireland
    Comments:
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  219. 563
    Name: Tiffany on Jul 31, 2010
    State: North Carolina
    Country: United States
    Comments: My father was an alcoholic. Abusive to my brother and sister. Neglected to be there for family activities. Left when I was 12 and never seen or spoke to him since. I'm 29 now. My brother had cirrhosis of the liver because of alcohol. He died a month ago. He was only 36. I knew long before I turned 21 that I would never drink and the older I get, the more I hate the thought of alcohol and the terrible effects it has. I've had others try to tell me the benefits of alcohol or try to tell me that having a couple drinks now and then is not bad, but there's so much bad stuff about alcohol and it completely overrides the good. It's not worth the pain and heartache it has caused.
  220. 566
    Name: Kayla Smith on Aug 22, 2010
    State: Kentucky
    Country: United States
    Comments: Alcohol is bad i hate it..people act so stupid when their drunk and plus when my uncle got killed he was drunk he wasnt driving but i believe if he hadnt been drunk maybe he could have stopped the wreck.
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  221. 567
    Name: Dave Troiani on Aug 23, 2010
    State: New Jersey
    Country: United States
    Comments: ban alcohol please it helps the united states and this will help our economy troubles
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  223. 569
    Name: J.W. Hendrix on Sep 9, 2010
    State: Michigan
    Country: United States
    Comments: if not a total ban, further restrictions and licensing requirements to drink-- think about it... you need a license to show that you have passed a state test and drivers education and are able to handle controlling a vehicle, maybe when we drink we need a license to handle our own selves.
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  224. 570
    Name: Aaron on Sep 11, 2010
    State:
    Country: Ireland
    Comments: alcohol ruined everything
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  225. 571
    Name: Graham McLean on Sep 11, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: I agree with all of the above and think the ban on alcohol would be of great benefit to all countries through out the world.
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  226. 572
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 19, 2010
    State:
    Country: Greece
    Comments: Must stop to flow freely this drug!
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  227. 573
    Name: Anthony Prater on Sep 20, 2010
    State: Maryland
    Country: United States
    Comments: yes I agree totaly,alcohol shoud be banned,this merry go round must come to a stop,alcohol is the most harmful of all substances(and I'm not for legalizing any other drug)it's all business to law enforcment agencies,they make tons of money off of dwi arrests,this travesty must end.
  228. 576
    Name: Brenda on Sep 30, 2010
    State: Delaware
    Country: United States
    Comments: Amen!!
  229. Name: Orlando Jimenez on Oct 21, 2010
    State: California
    Country: United States
    Comments: Enough is enough, we can't seem to control it or force people to act responsibly, time to ban it IMO.
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  230. 579
    Name: Anonymous on Oct 31, 2010
    State:
    Country: Ireland
    Comments: In total agreement. Well written. Alcohol is the scourge of society. A ban on alcohol would be welcome and I am glad to see that I am not the only person that feels this way. Shame on the Government countries who allow the sale of this highly addictive and destructive substance. How much profit does the government take in on taxes from the sale of this poison? The government is as guilty as those who commit the crimes that are a direct and indirect result of those perpetrators who commit them in relation to Alcohol. So are the Publican's and the Brewery's who profit from the sale of this highly dangerous drug. Shame on You. The government, the publican's and the brewery's are the pusher's of this drug that is shaking society to it's very core. They are the profiteers. It is truly an injustice that Alcohol is legal. When other dangerous drugs such as Cocaine and Heroin are Illegal. Cocaine, Heroin, to name a few and Alcohol are all in the same class. The dealer on the street gets busted for selling methamphetamine. As does the user. And yet the Government allows the legal sale of Alcohol, through off licences, Public Houses, Restaurants and Hotel's. What is wrong with them. Are they Mentally ILL also like the people Who push and use drug's and drink alcohol. It sure seems that way. Or else they are incredibly obtuse. It would seem that the Government are no better than the Mafia, the criminal gang's and the drug lord's who gain from the Illegal sale of class A drugs such as cannabis, cocaine, methampetamine heroin to name a few. That is surly the case. Shame on the government, and their criminal empire who gain from the sale of Alcohol. A substance which is tearing this nation apart, criminally, emotionally, financially , psychologically. Turning people into psychotic and Delusional Alcoholics. Costing the health service a fortune. Killing people on our roads. Peoples lives changed forever. Families torn apart. It's time the government had a good look at themselves in the mirror and did something to change this incredible tragedy that is Alcohol. And put a ban on this highly addictive and dangerous substance, before the next innocent person end's up in A + E Unconscious.
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  231. 580
    Name: Terry Alan Wiggins on Nov 1, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: Allot of my family have being addicted to alcohol and I have seen the damage it has and will keep on doing if not stopped now my Grandfather, Uncle and cousins are alcoholic and I will always remember watching as my cousin was spitting up blood all over the road and waiting in the hospital thinking it could be the last time I spoke to him also my Grandmother died from alcohol related illness. Forget about the devil ALCOHOL is the real evil.
  232. 587
    Name: Oliver CJ on Nov 21, 2010
    State: Ohio
    Country: New Zealand
    Comments: I hate alcohol so much that I wish it was banned, so I'm most certainly signing. I hate it when people drink because then there is accidents and stupidity, you have no idea how much I loathe it.
  233. Name: Catherine Mauler on Nov 30, 2010
    State: Michigan
    Country: United States
    Comments: I proudly sign this petition, I have seen the damage it causes in families, friends and to themselves. I will never understand how they justify that cigarettes are so horrible to others that we take off all commercials for them, ban smoking in any public building whatsoever and have to be several feet away; we ban marijuana because of the damage it does to your body and brain; but yet they sit promoting alchol in public places (bars) and several advertisements ( doubt 30 mins go by without some sort of beer or hard liquor commercial) and overall alchol is the MOST dangerous drug out there. How many people wind up in hospitals having to have their stomach pumped? How many INNOCENT people do they hurt through abuse, drunk driving accidents or other such things? Not to mention you think throwing up constantly and making yourself basically nuts through the overuse of alchol is healthy? In some people, drinking alchol has the equivalent effect as a mentally healthy person taking Prozac, it makes decent people into complete psychotics and yet we promote this through advertising and have yet to put any restrictions on it other than to be 21 years of age. Altering your personality is INAPPROPRIATE for any age, that's why we ban the misuse of prescription drugs and illegal drugs. It should be common sense that ALCOHOL IS A DRUG and it should be TREATED as such. Why do you think they call alcholism a DISEASE if it's safe in the governments eyes? FULLY SUPPORT!!!!!
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  235. Name: WENDY HUGHETT on Dec 7, 2010
    State: Tennessee
    Country: United States
    Comments: I know what the effects alcohol can have on the body and what it does to peoples lives and I vote to have it banned my father and aunt died due to alcohol usage and I know first hand how it can destroy the families lives and take father from children, mothers from children and its not fair to allow people to have to go through this anymore. It needs to be stopped! Innocent people are killed everyday due to drunk drivers as well and its not fair for those families who are completely innocent.
  236. 594
    Name: Darren Tilston on Dec 31, 2010
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: alcohol has ruined my life, even though i dont use it in any form, lets rename it "KILCOHOL"
  237. 598
    Name: Alan on Jan 12, 2011
    State: Missouri
    Country: United States
    Comments: There are much safer alternatives to alcohol for relaxation such as passion flower, valerian root, lavender...
  238. Name: Teemu on Jan 21, 2011
    State:
    Country: Finland
    Comments: The only reason why alcohol is not banned world wide is because it's making so much money as in tax for the government. That only proofs that they only care about money. If they would be able to charge tax from drugs, they would be legal. Think about that.
  239. 601
    Name: Ghada Dennawi on Jan 21, 2011
    State:
    Country: Lebanon
    Comments: I DEFINITELY SIGN!
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  240. 602
    Name: Jerry Adkins on Jan 31, 2011
    State: Indiana
    Country: United States
    Comments: if i was not for the taxs they get by the selling of alcohol and the perks the get from the alcohol companys and all the drunks we have in the goverment it would be illegal. its a harmfull drug to everyone .is are state goverment blind or just stupid or is all they care about is putting money there pockets
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  241. 603
    Name: K.Granz on Feb 4, 2011
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: Alcohol is a menace to society, ban it to hell!
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  242. 604
    Name: Lance Patrick Atkinson on Feb 4, 2011
    State: Ohio
    Country: United States
    Comments: I am signing this petiton because alcohol has caused loss/ruin in major areas of my life. Alcohol advertising, now more than ever, aggressively targets our nation's youth, and by doing so is breeding the next generation of alcoholics/DUI offenders. The problem will only get worse until Prohibition makes a triumphant return. If any US government official truly cares about saving lives, he or she will set change in motion.
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  243. 605
    Name: Pavithra Abbineni on Feb 5, 2011
    State:
    Country: India
    Comments: please ban alcohol
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  244. 606
    Name: Shola Smith on Feb 7, 2011
    State: New York
    Country: United States
    Comments: This Alcohol has destroyed my family & my father life.
  245. 608
    Name: Bernice on Feb 13, 2011
    State: Oregon
    Country: United States
    Comments: Please consider baning alcohol.
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  246. 609
    Name: Saif on Feb 17, 2011
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: Alchohol, the root of all evil.
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  247. 610
    Name: Valerie Powers on Feb 22, 2011
    State: West Virginia
    Country: United States
    Comments: My boyfriend drinks beer almost everyday and sometimes a case in a half.I get accused of stuff I don't do cause of him drinking so much.I think alcohol should be banned from WV and any other state.All alcohol does is cause trouble everyday in people and makes them do things they regret.My boyfriend has schizophrenia and drinks on top of that and it makes his mind worse.I HATE ALCOHOL!
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  248. 611
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 27, 2011
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: Ban it.
  249. 614
    Name: Kasper Teijgeler on Mar 16, 2011
    State:
    Country: Netherlands
    Comments: willfully destroying your body
  250. Name: JESSICA MARTIN on Mar 22, 2011
    State: West Virginia
    Country: United States
    Comments: Im 100% against alcohl I lost my mother to addiction & my grandmother to a drunk driver all alcohol does is destroy lives.
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  251. 619
    Name: Justin on Mar 29, 2011
    State:
    Country: Canada
    Comments: I am quite aware that governments don't take online petitions seriously. However, I've signed this petition to express my position on this issue and to show that there are many others who believe in the same thing I do.
  252. 624
    Name: Marcus Russon on Apr 7, 2011
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: ban the disgusting stuff
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  253. 625
    Name: Roger Hawkins on Apr 11, 2011
    State: Ohio
    Country: United States
    Comments: FOR OVER 25 YEARS ALCOHOL MESSED UP MY LIFE.
  254. Name: Walter Clark on Apr 19, 2011
    State: New York
    Country: United States
    Comments: Declare alcohol a narcotic drug, like marijuana and cocaine, it can harm or even kill people, Bring prohibition (or ban) of alcohol back sometime in the 21st century, making it illegal to possess or consume, like a similar law in Alaska, where alcohol ban is enacting in that state, and that similar law should be enacted in the lower 48 states (e.g., for New York, Vermont, Texas, etc), because it can make people violent, cause deadly car accidents, or kill other people if someone ran over a person while driving a car drunk. If prohibition is back, punish bar owners, alcoholic drink manufacturers who produce alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer or wine), and shut that business down, and send that owner to prison, like drugs such as marijuana and cocaine, or a gun. Days when a event take place that requires alcohol, if prohibition is to occur, people should be subject to searches, and if caught that person should be prosecuted, and sent to jail. to keep that venue safe from vandals, or fights,
  255. 629
    Name: Dustin Dishon on Apr 29, 2011
    State: Indiana
    Country: United States
    Comments: Alcohol is worse than many illegal drugs.
  256. 638
    Name: Jenny on Jun 10, 2011
    State: Alabama
    Country: United States
    Comments: I grew up in a home with alcoholics, I have seen first hand how it effects lives. My mother died due to drinking to much. All to often; drunk driving is becoming common and how many people die due to alcohol poison.
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  257. 639
    Name: John Lucas on Jun 12, 2011
    State: Washington
    Country: United States
    Comments: Ban alcohol because of the detrimental effects on the humanity. Also ban Tobacco, black people, Mexican people, Jewish people, Asian people, and all other people's nationality that are not white. We as a people must make this world a better place without alcohol.
  258. 641
    Name: Rameez Qazi on Jun 27, 2011
    State:
    Country: Canada
    Comments: Alcohol should be banned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  259. 642
    Name: Nathaniel Smith on Jun 29, 2011
    State: Colorado
    Country: United States
    Comments: Alcohol kills too many people to possibly be legal. Its a evil drug.
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  261. 646
    Name: Kevin Andews on Jul 23, 2011
    State: Maryland
    Country: United States
    Comments: good job people!
  262. 649
    Name: Thom Fischer on Jul 31, 2011
    State: Kansas
    Country: United States
    Comments: There is no doubt in my mind that fewer people would live in poverty, less people would engage in violent acts, more people would live longer, fewer children would fall to neglect, and the overall quality of life worldwide would be much higher IF ALCOHOL DID NOT EXIST. Alcohol is a poison on society. BAN ALCOHOL WORLDWIDE!
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  263. 650
    Name: Daniel Bentley on Aug 20, 2011
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: We need to ban this killing machine
  264. Name: Barry Barker on Aug 20, 2011
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: We need to destroy this horrible way of cutting life shorter.
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  265. 652
    Name: Mark Hyett on Aug 28, 2011
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: DRINK SHOULD BE BANNED PERIOD! ITS WORSE THAN HEROIN.
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  266. 653
    Name: David Shanahan Willey on Aug 28, 2011
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: Having grown up with a alcoholic father, I think alcohol should be banned, It causes too much damage, and not just to the alcoholic (who I have little sympathy for), but, mainly, to the people around them, whether physical, psychological or emotional. Let's get rid of alcohol, and, if the alcoholics don't like it, well, tough, they don't care about anyone else, why should we care about them?.
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  268. Name: Anonymous on Aug 31, 2011
    State: New York
    Country: United States
    Comments: Alcohol should not be permitted. It is as bad as any other drug, maybe even worse. I was raised in a household with a single alcoholic mother. Now I suffer from anxiety and depression, for reasons I would wish to be secret. I hope alcohol will be banned, to prevent children from ending up with as many problems as me.
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  269. Name: Predrag Pesic on Sep 25, 2011
  270. State:
    Country: Serbia
    Comments: I fully support banning alcohol. It was totally instrumental in destroying my familly.
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  271. 665
    Name: Marius on Sep 25, 2011
    State:
    Country: Lithuania
    Comments: I hate alcohol i wish it was banned foerever
  272. 671
    Name: Jonathon on Oct 27, 2011
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: my sister is an alcoholic and is fighting for her life with liver failure due to alcohol. I can appreciate many of you people think its stupid to go banning alcohol and its people like my sister fault for "abusing" it. The fact of the matter is, some people are genetically more predisposed to become dependant on alcohol, and some people through very poor unfortunate chains of events also become highly dependant on alcohol. It becomes a long process and eventually an alcoholic cannot stop themselves. In AA they never say you were an alcoholic but you are always in a state of recovery. Once the invisible line of alcoholism is crossed it never leaves you. Relapses are eventually inevitable. And if people were more sympathetic to these people that cant help it, when obviously alcohol is not necessary for anyone to live, it should be pretty obvious that alcohol being banned is only going to benefit people physically, emotionally, financially and mentally. Alcohol should be baned, and the government increasing duty on it for dependants will not work, it will just get to the point where people cant afford it and will just steal it. You selfish people saying they should just stop before commenting should read up about alcoholism. The effects and how it ruins their and their familiy and friends lives. Its heart breaking. BAN IT
    Flag Name: Cristina on Nov 5, 2011
  273. State:
    Country:
    Comments: I agree completely! Alcohol is a piece of shit drink that leads to masochism and sadism! My stupid father is a "victim" of it, and ultimately, makes me the victim of his "drunk-state sadism"! If I could, I would ban alcohol world-wide so much, the next generation won't even know what the word itself means! Millions of people should sign this petition! (sorry if there are grammar mistakes, I'm not english)
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  274. 674
    Name: Mhairi Williams on Nov 13, 2011
    State:
    Country: Canada
    Comments: Alcohol is the real gateway drug and causes death and destruction
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  275. 675
    Name: Brian Boyle on Nov 18, 2011
    State:
    Country: United Kingdom
    Comments: Control the unnecessary disease please ..
    I hate drugs and alcohol
    I hate drugs and alcohol
    I hate drugs and alcohol
    I hate drugs and alcohol
    I hate drugs and alcohol
    I hate drugs and alcohol
      • Christian Edward Limedrac Canales they are  crap
      • Mark Kneher They are by products from the devil!
      • Victor Constantinoff yeah man they suck
      • Jeanette Taurozzi hate that crap sometimes I feel like the only person in their 20's that feels that way :( people alot f the time think I am boring just because I dont do drugs and im not a bar slut! I dont understand it I have alot of fun interests just because I am not a junkie doesnt mean i cant have fun......
      • Irene Hussain its not fun your smart! their not they wannna die eariler thats why their harming themselves with toxic waste products :/
      • Irene Hussain i can get high on life lol without drugs :) by acting crazy lol
      • Timothy Oskins That aint right
      • November 13 at 10:18am · Andrew Carr look at me now..
      • December 1 at 9:50pm · Jeet Rawat i hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate alcohol
      • December 2 at 7:57am · Jeanette Taurozzi me too! hate it weird for a 26 year old to say but drinking is pointless to me :)
      • December 7 at 2:39pm · Kari Avinash Kaminski Jeanette I am 26! you can add me if you want :)
      • 9 hours ago ·
    I hate drugs and alcohol
    I hate drugs and alcohol

    I hate drugs and alcohol
    Alcohol is how satan makes the humans celebrate on how they destroyed the creation Of the Creator, and how they destroyed mother earth for richness.
    2 minutes ago
      • Tommie White Yeah. .
        August 6 at 3:21am ·
      • I hate drugs and alcohol ?=D
        August 6 at 3:21am · Tommie White Lets bann alchol. Lets stop the people that makes it. Thats the only way we can make the people to stop using it. .
        Sigrettes also. Stop the creator and the user too will stop. Thats how we can save some lives.
      • August 6 at 3:22am ·
      • I hate drugs and alcohol yeah!! we.. that right
        August 6 at 3:23am ·
      • David Parent i just like this cus i dont like drinkin or drugs >.> nothing to do with god
      • Tatiana Barnett I agree!!! My opinion on drugs however have to do with the mind. It is an un-natural outlet. Pain that you want to numb so you reach for a cure. Later it will turn into a disease, an addiction. It will eat you in the end. People do it because they want to fit in. Why can't you just go to a party with punch> Do you seriously have to be drunk to have fun??? SAD>
        September 21 at 4:22am ·  · 2
     
    alcohol is poison!
      • August 6 at 2:36am ·  · 1
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        I hate drugs and alcohol ?=D
        August 6 at 2:36am ·
      • I hate drugs and alcohol guys help us to spread the hatred about this poisons
      • Mickey Sullivan ur so ryt man alcohol is poison but so are cigarettes marajuana and other illegal drugs and toxins. just be ur self and get thrills from life itself its not hard
    alcohol is poison!
     
    we hate drugs and alcohol!!its sucks.,!!

    Harrison Nguyen I'm 18 years and 6 months old and i'm 18 years and 6 months alcohol free. Now the big test...college. Bring it on

      • MsIssy L'Strange just watch who you allow yourself to be influenced by. Drinkers are ~VERY threatened by non-drinkers and in my 30 years, I have only had drinkers pressurise me to drink. stay clean, clear and focussed. Alcohol and aspects of my personality then also nearly got me imprisoned. its a very powerful and dark drug. Good luck; if you want a future withoot alcohol visualise it and create it! simple but true. x
        August 23 at 6:26pm ·

    Jed Sasser Way too much has been screwed up by alcohol for me to ever want it. It's just stupid and causes problems.

    Ben Richards I'm against alcohol because drunks either act stupid, rape, kill, or beat there children. I know non alcoholics do this too, but they are crazy. Alcohol has the same affect only artifcially, it makes you go crazy. I'm not talking partying, I'm talking violence.

    Aman Rasdan Alcohol make people trouble,fighting n killing each other!!! I hate alcohol!!!!!!!!

    out of the slammer, don’t get hammered
     

    Pedro Peyote Pablo Outlaw this poison

    Ronald Buckman I used to be okay with drinking in moderation, but after my closest friend, Michelle Lee (Britton) Farmer, died of alcohol poisoning on March 13 at age 46, I became as strongly against drinking booze as David J. Stewart of the jesus-is-savior.com web site. I now know that you should not set a poor example for severe alcoholics. You should never help others drink booze, especially alcoholics. I want more students educated on the dangers of alcohol, suggesting total abstinence; and I am in favo...r of a ban on alcoholic beverage commercials on radio and TV.

    Todd Dudek in Australia, its not only socialy accepted to drink alcohol but it is socialy EXPECTED which is why we have such a problem over hear. oh well! no one realises til its too late. there are plenty of legal, healthy alteratives out there ;P

      • Leighton Marsh It's terrible in Britain too. Out of control, I think!
        March 13, 2010 at 11:16am ·
     

    Joe Kennedy Ive had pancreatitis 3 times from booze in my 20s. Finally quit the Poisin

    Adam Cozzie its like jumping in a shark tank expecting to box them to death

    Quentin Estes It makes one dangerously incoherent. I loath & despise everything about alcohol.

      • Joe Kennedy yeah defo. booze is so overated
        February 25, 2010 at 5:40pm ·
    • Marjie Bernard it ruind alot of my familly from the introduction of alcohol,my grandparents,my dad s life and many others still fighting to deal with alcoholism its a shame our younger kids just see that growing up, I hope they find their way throu life to live better for themselves. Im sad for my people, pray for them .

    Trey Aidi Drinking sucks, Beer sucks, everything related to Alcohol sucks!

      • Leighton Marsh It tastes disgusting. It's no way as good as coke or pepsi or whatever. And it makes you act like a boob!
        March 13, 2010 at 11:14am ·

     

    Coleen Bryssinck There's something wrong with the kids these days.
    Everyone i knows drinks, and most of the time just because they are bored,
    or because they think it's fun!
    You don't need alcohol to have fun!

    Ch Abdul Wahab every one want to have fun !!! so more drink and more fun .. isn't it ?
    after having fun, some of us vomit on the streets, malls, stations ... peeing in the pants, on public booths, streets ... do we really want this kind of fun ?
    next day we will be falling around, saying "oh ****, i drank last night, i got hung over" "my head is hurting" "aah, i dunno what happen last night"  "i couldnt manage to walk"

    what the hell is wrong with ppl :(

    Ch Abdul Wahab it can be your father, mother, sister, brother... your daughter, your son...
    just look what we are giving to our up coming generation... ppl think they are having fun... do they know what this FUN HELL is ??? no, i will never recommend this FUN to my children nor yours, i am human, i have right to fight against it.

    1.3 MILLION ppl die each year, caused Alcohol !!!

    Wardlaw Livingston Fulmer For those who do not nee to find a self destructive way to make themselves fit in with a larger group of people who are just as insecure as themselves. In other words. "Be your own flippin person and stop tryi to escape reality you cowards.

     

    Farid Laghai

    What is the point???????
    Alcohol is what gives people the excuse to act like complete morons, and it's sad because people buy up this gimmick the alcohol industry brain washes us with. I see no good reason as to why people are against smoking and drugs, yet okay with sipping on a glass of wi.ne. It's very sad how alcohol can change nice people into some obnoxious rude drunks, and why is it that women feel the need to dance like strippers after having a couple drinks? Do some women feel alcohol permits them to act like strippers? Why is alcohol what we're suppose to consume in the club/party atmosphere? and WHY is alcohol something you're suppose to consume when you're depressed about something?? ALCOHOL IS A DEPRESSANT !!! Everything points against the use of alcohol, and most people (probably outside this group anyway) will read this, laugh about it, because they have no valid argument against it, than continue living as a whore gimmick for the alcohol industry. Go to your clubs and get drunk, dance like clowns, hang over each others shoulders and scream into each others ears about complete gibberish, take pictures of each other posing with drinks in your hands, because you’re an advertisement whore for an industry because TV told you to do so, than pick up a complete stranger, which you wouldn’t have the confidence to talk to without alcohol, and if you don't get into an accident on your way home have unsafe sex and get an STD, which you can later blame the alcohol for, than throw up all over your floor, wake up feeling half dead, and than go out with your buddies to talk and laugh about how "plastered" you got the night before, go ahead, after all it's not like you're supporting an industry that lives off the pain and suffering of so many people.
     

    Queen'hime Purplelace Alcohol destroys and kills peoples lives ... Please stop before its to late

    Gypsy Affezionato Alcohol has the ability to seriously destroy peoples lives

    Queen'hime Purplelace Its a curse ! Its a disease ! Its a filth !
    Save yourself before it drags you down ~ my parents were alcoholics and both went to rehab ! It destroyed me, i was only 5, it made my life hell ! Don't let your kids go through this

    Prasanna Navadgi say no to alcohol, as a doctor i have couselled many people to stop drinking alcohol and brought back harmony in their families

    Gilang Aprilian Fuckk To ALCOHOL!!!!!!

    Gitesh Chopra Great Group ! Keep the good work up guys !

    Heather Spisak if I knew that prohibition was brought back to the the u.s., it wld be one of the most memorable days of my life. We wld all be a lot safer that way!

    Alessandro DelKhairio its a sin to consume alcohol. Screw those muslims who thinks nowadays its normal to consume alcohol

    Jared Edmonds I'm 18 and have never had a drink in my life, and I plan on keeping it that way! Why do so many kids keep thinking they're "cool" by being drunk? Seems insensible to me.

      • Smara Dhana Good for u all, me too, I'm in your age and I'll keep it on my way.
        November 17, 2009 at 4:17pm ·
      •  Pritish Chakraborty Same here, I'm 17, and I'm gonna keep it that way.

     

    Karie Carter Alcohol leads only to bad things! It's poison.

     

    Ward Van Sevencoten The day will come that alcohol will be banned out of this world. It is like smoking, the road ahead is long but people get more aware of this sickness as time goes by. We can't lose this battle.

    Grynch Cybizar Alcohol should be banned WORLDWIDE! it's never done anything positive for any community!!! all its ever done is PROMOTE STUPIDITY!!!!

    Patrick The-Vegan The American government is obviously hypocritical to allow some drugs to be legally sold in America, while declaring a war on drugs! The American people are all addicted to alcohol making them mentally incapable of rational decisions about policy. It’s the same old politics money over morals, profit over people. I’m ashamed to be an American.

    Samantha Rios bring back Prohibition!

    Samantha Rios I'm so glad I found a group like this, I can't stand alcohol or people who drink and think its cool, it just makes you a damn fool

    Zane Hunt If you want to be unique, self confident, proud, sincere, honest and naturally happy in life..........don't drink.

    People who do drink and take drugs will secretly admire you for it, because you are doing something that they cannot do

    Nicky Nikk Connelly Alcohol aint worth crap. If you think your cool being drunk as hell, cant even walk with out stumbling than your damn idiot!

    Bernard James Mccann m sick of people sayin whats wrong with me coz i dont drink r smoke WHATS WRONG WITH ME THATS A LAUGH im not the 1 slowly poisoning myself

    Naowshaba Ferdous alcohol gets on my nerves. especially when ppl say they drink it because it tastes "good". um, soda, water, tea, coffee, etc.. tastes good too! and they're not harmful like alcohol. ughhh

    Brandon Michael Hairston Alcohol sux. It only ruins ur life even more by the time u wake up from a hangover. It drives away the best friends uve ever had and makes it so that the most merciful ppl in the world will never forgive you. There r better ways to make urself feel better. Alcohol is not a good way and its a way that leads ppl into temptation. Alcohol is wrong and should be made illegal.

    Dylan Senior-Shaggy Young okay, alcohol is probaly one of the worst drugs out there, yet despite all it's pains it remains legal...personally i think it shouled remain that way, the problem lies in the fact that alcohol is seen as harmless and promoted as such. Marijuana has virtually no proven negative afects on the body adn is illegal. the drug war is useless and and results in alcohol abuse because it is meant to. society is built to create alcohol abuse becasue it helps keep people controlable adn keeps supplying the government with large ammounts of money

    Takeshi Okawara Alcohol is a legal drug in most countries. In third world poor countries it has destroyed many families. In Nepal there are many men with alcohol problems. People look away when their drunk husbands beat their wives. Most People in Nepal do not know how to drink socially, and gatherings always end up in fights.

    Shawn Arvari No need to drink. real fun is when you can remember it ;). alcohol is worse than most drugs. needs to be banned

    Victor Sheremetiev NO TO ALCOHOL & ALCOHOLICS! From Russia! As you can see I've added some pics ;-)

    Bernard James Mccann when people are younger they seem to enjoy themselves more and they dont need drink

    Robin Rosenberger alcohol is shit! I cant't understand, how every of my friends like it!

    Shelley Gagnon Alcohol has cost me lots of money and heartbreak over the years. It's forbidden in my home. I only wish the ones who cause me pain would respect my rule. Maybe someday.

    Christopher Cahill alcohol kills!!

    Mario Scipioni A) Alcohol does not taste good.
    B) There is nothing special about getting drunk.
    C) Alcohol really messes you up and can kill you.

    Bradley Maravalli Alcohol messes with your perception which can lead to do stupid things and make love or worse, impregnate, the wrong person. You can't drive and kill the life of an innocent. You can't stand and can fall down a flight of stair and become paralyze. You say things you didn't mean to. You get into fights more easily. You can't do anything the next day from you hangover.

    Novita Salahudin In my believe,alcohol can make wonderful people become rappers,killers,and ruins the human activity around him/her(every relationship will be broken)because a drop of alcohol.are u sure u want to live that kind of life?i dont think so

    Iswinder Singh He who drinks the intoxicant, loses sense of himself and his surroundings, he cannot distinguish between himslef and others and his mind becomes filled with impure thoughts, he becomes mad and the almighty strikes him done!!

    Dicky Saputra this things make u do something recklessly with unconscious mind

    Tion D Kusumo i HATE alcohol );

    Premanand Maniam If a person drinks an alcoholic drink, they get into accidents,fight with their family and so on.

    I hate drugs and alcohol thanks!!!spread the hatred =D

    Tommie White But yeah. I hate drugs and alcohol. Wish they was never made.
    People die because of alcohol., ecstacy, mandrax, , people die in cars, planes, trains.
    People die for a phone, people die getting rich.
    Instead of doing what they are supose to. The creator of Earth is not happy. And mother earth isnt either.

    Kaila Pepe Fehrenbach Drugs ruined my family, my marriage, my life...
    Abhay Jotaniya alcohol is poison!
    Mark Kneher They are by products from the devil!
    Irene Hussain its not fun your smart! their not they wannna die eariler thats why their harming themselves with toxic waste products :/
    Jeet Rawat i hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate alcohol
    Robert Rodham I hate alcohol, my dad has died at 48 because of the stuff, I loved him and the drink took him away from me!
     
    Heidi Marcou I am all for educating abstinence from drugs and alcohol. As a drug and alcohol counselor, I find the best approach is to show the connection between substance use and the negative consequences from that use in their lives. Remember, positivity breeds positivity. Fight bad with good.
    David Beshkensky ?I hate drugs and alcohol
     
    Eva Destruction I HATE DRUGS AND ALCOHOL!!!!!!!!!!
     
    Alan Rios drugs are for losers!!:)
    Debbie Bower I hate drugs and alcohol
     
    Bhanu Sharma Drugs+alcohol=destruction..... It sucks.
     
    Lana Tookey yuck!!!!!!! :)
     
    Katherine English drugs/alcohol suckk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if u do them yourr one of the biggest idiotss in the world(:
    Chris Smit alcohol is poison ! end of the story

    		  
     
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