Drinking can be deadly

By Nation Graphic

 

 

Up to 3 million people worldwide die from the effects of alcohol annually.

 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30370367

 

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Do they really need to tell us that 100% of deaths from alcohol-reelated disorders are caused by alcohol?

 

 

11 minutes ago, madmitch said:

Do they really need to tell us that 100% of deaths from alcohol-reelated disorders are caused by alcohol?

That's for the hard-of-learning.

so can walking across the street, so can renting a condo anything higher than the second floor, so can holidaying on Koh Tao, so can para-sailing in Phuket

 

get the point ..

I need another drink ... hic ...hic ...

If I die because of the alcohol I drank, it's not a bad death, certainly better than death from cancer caused by dirt in the air!

 

By the way: Not drinking is definitely deadly!????

I feel an alcohol duty increase coming very soon

 

 

if Thailand was actually worried about deaths of its citizens they would do something about the carnage on the roads - the world No1 Hub of road deaths and accidents - a record to be proud of, problem is it costs money to do something about it - Subs are more important not to mention the massive corruption 

 

The only the police ever bag on the roads are bodies instead of bagging the lawbreakers while in the act

1 minute ago, smedly said:

f Thailand was actually worried about deaths of its citizens they would do something about the carnage on the roads - the world No1 Hub of road deaths and accidents - a record to be proud of, problem is it costs money to do something about it - Subs are more important not to mention the massive corruption 

 

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for any change...

 

 

4 minutes ago, smedly said:

I feel an alcohol duty increase coming very soon

There is a lot of very cheap alcohol consumed by Thais and surely it would be best to tax that heavily (a tax targeted at the main cause....apart from the stupidity) BUT the chances are that the likes of wine will also suffer if an increase occurs!!

 

Not good for the likes of wine lovers who already suffer from an overtaxed product.

Alcohol addicts do not want to hear their drug is dangerous, and most people who aren't addicts and are literate, have tapered right off. Like the tobacco lobby, millions were spent trying to suppress the health information but people are starting to wise up that alcohol is the worst drug of all. Trouble is that in some countries, getting pissed is their national sport and it's hard for kids to grow up without it being forced down their throats with peer pressure. Then if alcoholism runs in their families it only takes a few sessions for the start of a lifetime of addiction and eventual misery.

1 hour ago, 30la said:

If I die because of the alcohol I drank, it's not a bad death, certainly better than death from cancer caused by dirt in the air!

 

By the way: Not drinking is definitely deadly!????

MM having seen people die because alcoholic liver disease, (when nursing) I would not be certain that it is "not a bad death" 

I will drink & not drive. The odds are better here

1 hour ago, smedly said:

I feel an alcohol duty increase coming very soon

 

 

if Thailand was actually worried about deaths of its citizens they would do something about the carnage on the roads - the world No1 Hub of road deaths and accidents - a record to be proud of, problem is it costs money to do something about it - Subs are more important not to mention the massive corruption 

 

The only the police ever bag on the roads are bodies instead of bagging the lawbreakers while in the act

 

They are more comfortable promoting abstinence.......it is a Buddha no-no.

 

Bad driving not really covered by the precepts, as it is difficult to identify deliberation rather than carelessness/stupidity/incompetence/irresponsibility as the cause of the resultant harm (deliberate harm a no-no).

 

A lot of things get "dismissed" in their culture/society because of their rooted, historical......."tenets"?

 

We have different historical/philosophical roots which, although many think they have moved on from them, still exercise an extremely powerful influence (often unacknowledged or ignored) on the Western way of "being".

 

We do not have their history (and do not want it), they do not have ours (or want it).

 

We're different.

 

We have different social/cultural "DNA".

 

It will take a long time before we "coalesce".

 

 

 

 

 

Yes we all know that, but if you drink one glass of beer (b-vitamin) and one glass of wine (antioxidants) daily it can be healthy, not deadly. 

 

You just have to remember: Only one glass. Repeat after me : One glass. 

 

You know what's even more deadly than drinking? Breathing oxygen. Aerobic respiration produces free radicals which damage and degrade the body - people who breath oxygen have a 100% mortality rate.

2 minutes ago, balo said:

Yes we all know that, but if you drink one glass of beer (b-vitamin) and one glass of wine (antioxidants) daily it can be healthy, not deadly. 

 

You just have to remember: Only one glass. Repeat after me : One glass. 

 

That's not true - didn't you know that you can drink a bottle of red as long as you drink a bottle of white immediately afterwards, the two cancel themselves out leaving you feeling great.

I would have thought that wine related alcohol deaths are at an all time low here for some reason????

4 hours ago, madmitch said:

Do they really need to tell us that 100% of deaths from alcohol-reelated disorders are caused by alcohol?

 

 

The sum of all other causes is actually 219 percent.

15 minutes ago, SteveK said:

That's not true - didn't you know that you can drink a bottle of red as long as you drink a bottle of white immediately afterwards, the two cancel themselves out leaving you feeling great.

Gonna try that one tonight ????

1 hour ago, RJRS1301 said:

2 hours ago, 30la said:

If I die because of the alcohol I drank, it's not a bad death, certainly better than death from cancer caused by dirt in the air!

 

By the way: Not drinking is definitely deadly!????

MM having seen people die because alcoholic liver disease, (when nursing) I would not be certain that it is "not a bad death" 

 

if you worked with alcoholics then you know it is a losing battle trying to reason with them (self deluded in denial)

Worldwide, 3 million is apparently 1 in 20, giving a total population of 60 million. Of that number, 2.3 billion are regular drinkers. Huh?

 

Also, there are about 540,000 minutes in a year. So 3 million people dying a year is a lot closer to, uh, lets see, ah yes, they are right about that one.

what a scoop!

2 hours ago, balo said:

Yes we all know that, but if you drink one glass of beer (b-vitamin) and one glass of wine (antioxidants) daily it can be healthy, not deadly. 

 

You just have to remember: Only one glass. Repeat after me : One glass. 

 

How big can the glass be please?   LOL

Are the rather slow, uninformed pundits in Thailand just discovering this?  

2 hours ago, balo said:

Yes we all know that, but if you drink one glass of beer (b-vitamin) and one glass of wine (antioxidants) daily it can be healthy, not deadly. 

 

You just have to remember: Only one glass. Repeat after me : One glass. 

 

 

... yes master, Only One Glass ...

 

 

14 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

How big can the glass be please?   LOL

Dont be greedy one a day is ample!

Cheers

To quote a friend of mine. "I don't want to have the healthiest liver in the graveyard". 

1 glass a day, can I partake in next years quota today?

7 hours ago, madmitch said:

Do they really need to tell us that 100% of deaths from alcohol-reelated disorders are caused by alcohol?

In the words of the immortal philosopher René Descartes  "I drink, therefore I am"

 

The Philosopher's drinking song, by Monty Python.

 

 

Safer than breathing. Estimated more than 3 million die from pollution realated disease globally. Logic would then have it that walking to the shop to buy a beer is more dangerous (not taking into account the brainless idiots behind the wheel or on motorcycles) than ibibing said beer.