Smoking Ban? Drinking Ban!

[chrisj]

I am personally not against alcohol at all, but I have problems with the way alcohol is displayed in ads on TV all day long that children see, and in every sports arena in the country, which I don't think should even be legal. However, there would be no sports arenas or probably no sports themselves without beer. Beer rules. Period.

My point in the beginning was to emphasize how lopsided the laws are and how lopsided peoples' attitudes are toward 2 bad things...tobacco and alcohol. While tobacco may do damage to you long-term, alcohol (in the hands of idiots) can kill or hurt a busload of schoolchildren (as happened here in Kentucky a few years ago).

I don't have a problem with drinking. I drink myself. I just think it's stupid to try and rationalize and be in denial about all the beer ads that are splattered everywhere, making it seem like you can't be "cool" without it. The kids see it, but people would rather ban a video game that supposedly warps kids' minds instead of even taking a look at what beer ads might do. This whole country is in denial about lots of things, alcohol being only one.