Hotels offering free drinks to women

Posted to Adelaide Now (12/11/2011) on 14/11/2011 at 12:23 AM, 17/11/2011 at 11:11 AM (Not published by Newspaper)
Commenting on "Hotels offering free drinks to women"
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Round up all the male or female drunkards and exhibit them in fenced open field like animals in a zoo. Irresponsible idiots should have their rights stripped off. By the way, when are graphic pictures going to appear on alcohol bottles, cans and bill boards warning about health hazards resulted in consuming this "legal" and yet addictive harmful product.

Should alcohol be outlawed?

Posted to Herald Sun (5/6/2011) on 5/6/2011 at 12:24 PM
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/learner-blows-0227-on-point-nepean-rd-in-dromana-police-say/story-fn7x8me2-1226069505926

Alcohol kills and affects more people money-wise and health-wise – physically, emotionally and psychologically. The hospital emergency and rehabilitation departments are clogged up with drink-driving and alcohol related patients. Welfare organisations have to help many to cope and deal with alcohol related abuses.

Why are there no health or risk warning messages with ghastly pictures on drink packaging? Should alcohol be sold behind counter like cigarettes? Should alcohol be banned or outlawed like cigarettes?

Bill Hunter dies of liver cancer

Posted to The Australian (27/5/2011) on 27/5/2011 at 1:32 AM
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Bill Hunter ended his life 'talking, drinking, laughing'. While the statement seems innocent, the crux of the matter is Bill dies of liver cancer very likely caused by his drinking. If this is the case, this statement should serve as a reminder for all alcohol drinkers that the ultimate price to pay for drinking is more than a life-long of talking and laughing, it is the painful suffering of liver cancer!

New push seeks to outlaw cigarettes

Posted to The Age (22/5/2011) on 22/5/2011 at 12:17 PM
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http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/now-butt-out-new-push-seeks-to-outlaw-cigarettes-20110521-1ey2s.html

I do not smoke and do not like to stand close to smokers whose hair, clothing and body are smelly and stinking. I do not like to see large tobacco companies making money out of misery of smoking addicts, too. After all being said, I totally disagree with the bleeding hearts, health sympathisers and hypocrites wanting to outlaw cigarettes and implement plain packaging.

To outlaw cigarettes will see the dawning of Australia becoming a Big Brother country - freedom to choose, freedom of expression and freedom to advertise will become things of the past.

Smokers’ right have been striped slowly and surely to point that they cannot smoke in public open and confined spaces. They do look very pitiful standing outside buildings, especially on cold, wintry days puffing away. It may be the smokers’ choice, but the society abandons them like lepers. How much of the tax collected by the government has been used to help or educate the smoking addicts? Scary pictures on cigarette packets or television screens do not deter people from giving up or taking up this product. How about some famous celebrities giving a helping hand, like what they have done to promote cancer awareness?

If people are fair dinkum about the wellbeing of the human race, why are alcohol and gambling not outlawed? Alcohol and gambling not only create physical harm, ill-health and even death to many individuals, but also physical and psychological abuses to people that are closed to them. These are a lot more evil than cigarettes and smoking.

Smoking is an addiction, so are alcohol drinking and gambling. Governments are quite happy to allow all these to be sold in the market place openly. If cigarettes are to be outlawed, so must alcohol and gambling.