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Alcohol Causes One In 20 Deaths Worldwide, Says WHO (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Alcohol is responsible for more than 5% of all deaths worldwide, or around 3 million a year, new figures have revealed. The data, part of a report from the World Health Organization, shows that about 2.3 million of those deaths in 2016 were of men, and that almost 29% of all alcohol-caused deaths were down to injuries -- including traffic accidents and suicide. The report, which comes out every four years, reveals the continued impact of alcohol on public health around the world, and highlights that the young bear the brunt: 13.5% of deaths among people in their 20s are linked to booze, with alcohol responsible for 7.2% of premature deaths overall. It also stresses that harm from drinking is greater among poorer consumers than wealthier ones. While the proportion of deaths worldwide that have been linked to alcohol has fallen to 5.3% since 2012, when the figure was at 5.9%, experts say the findings make for sobering reading.
the rate of death attributed to alcohol has been falling since 2012. Sounds like a better trend to me.
It's a poor mechanism for population control. It kills those in their 20s disproportionately often. This means the resources used to raise and educate these people are wasted since they died before they could make a sufficient contribution. A more cost efficient mechanism would target those past retirement or the very young or ideally prevent conception in the first place. As others have pointed out, alcohol may even increase the number of unplanned pregnancies, making the overpopulation problem worse.
Prohibition was a spectacular failure.
More-so than 95% really.
Almost a third of this 5% who do die from it are from accidents or suicide. Meaning alcohol played a part in the death, but was certainly not the underlying cause.
Alcohol abuse that lead to suicide is a mental problem compounded by the booze. The individual would've found another compound if booze wasn't available.
I tend to rant.
It kills those in their 20s disproportionately often because those in their 20s tend to die rarely from cardiac arrest, cancer or a stroke.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The number one way to screw up your life is having sex. From STDs to pregnancies to rape allegations...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
And yet 19 out of 20 people manage to live responsibly and not kill themselves. Did anybody question how many of those people enjoy a little alcohol in moderation without becoming fuckwits?
It's basically pointing out that some people can't control themselves, and that some people are just fucking awful parents who failed to introduce their offspring to drinking, partying and enjoying life in a controlled manner, leaving them to "break free" and binge out, to their own detriment.
Why blame the alcohol? Oh right, cos nobody wants to ever have to have personal responsibility. It must be something else what caused it sir.
If paying for it bothers you, well you're going to pay for it anyways in societal costs. More health care, more law enforcement involvement, more broken homes. If you're sole metric is taxes, then you really are missing the bigger picture.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Bad comparison. Countries have tried restricting both firearms and alcohol. We know that banning alcohol goes badly in general (e.g. US prohibition, Islamic countries today). In contrast, over the last 50 years, many countries have substantially increased restrictions on firearms (the UK, Canada, and Australia), and we haven't seen the same problems from alcohol prohibition. Addictive substances built into culture are very different than weapons. There are some decent potential arguments for few restrictions on firearms(e.g. right of self-defense), but a comparison to alcohol empirically doesn't work.
Hardly anyone knowingly chooses the path of drug addiction, mostly it comes down to people not really knowing what they are playing with. Even prevention campaigns saying "drugs are bad, don't do it" doesn't really get the message across. Largely because they don't quite stick to the facts and its obvious even to the kids, they tend to embellish dangers in some places and fail to show some of the more gruesome aspects properly. Bring a crack-whore to school and let her answer how many cocks a day she needs to swallow to make enough cash, that ought to get the point across.
You sir must learn to subscribe to the proper victimhood mentality, this is 2108 after all. We can't have people thinking and taking responsibility for themselves. Your vote entitles you to be absolved from such burdensome things. Indeed, many inanimate objects are to blame for your actions. And if that doesn't quite fly, then try blaming society as a failed collective system.
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