Global health fascists sem to have decided their New Year Resolution for 2025 is to demonise alcohol in the way they have demonised tobacco over the past few decades. A new campaign aimed at highlighting the link between alcohol and cancer. is being planned and will be abbounced soon we have heard. The driving force behind this mantra of misery is the soon-yo-be-ex US Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy (pity his name isn't ‘Murphy,’ he'd have a very different outlook if it was,), who says that there is no safe level of alcohol, even the one glass of red wine per day that is often proclaimed as health-giving and life-prolonging.
Mr O'Miserybollocks wants the public to be aware that alcohol causes cancer and
is, allegedly, responsible for 20,000 deaths annually in the United
States. Alcohol-related cancer, therefore, kills 0.006 per cent of
Americans per year. To put that in perspective, dementia kills 0.09 per
cent of Americans per year and heart disease 0.21 per cent. Similar ratios of UK and EU citizens are similarly affected.
There is no doubt about the existence of a link between alcohol and cancer, the demon drink is known to be a contributory factor in seven types of cancer including breast, mouth,
throat, pancreatic and liver. But, without appearing too flippant, with approximately 200,500,000 Americans consuming alcohol
and only 20,000 per year dying from cancer related to that drinking, and likewise 300,000,000 Europeans and 45 million Britons regularly enjoying a bevvy or two, with similar fatality rates, it
could be said that an overwhelming proportion of people who drink
alcohol do not die of cancer related to their consumption. Of course,
they might fall downstairs, crash their car or get into a fatal scrap.
But so might many teetotallers. And of course nobody has done any research into what proportion of non drinkres kill themselves / other people because they can't think of any other way to relieve the boredom.
Miseryguts Murthy wants to make the labels on booze bottles more explicit about the dangers. Currently US containers carry warnings about alcohol-related birth defects and not operating machinery while under the influence. In the UK we have a warning about birth defects in the form of a cryptic depiction of a pregnant woman (could be a man, of course) with a red cross, often jokingly misinterpreted as a warning that drinking may lead to pregnancy although if pregnancy reults from a drinking session it indicates that the male involved has not drunk enough..
Dr Murthy has not specified how ‘informative’ the labels should be
but I imagine he has in mind a campaign similar to the one whereby all
cigarette packets in the US must carry explicit colour pictures
related to tobacco-related cancers. We followed suit in the UK. In
Australia they send the anti-smoking message so strongly that you can
barely tell which brand of cigarettes you are buying, so festooned is
the packet with pathological images. These draconian laws about cigarette packaging do not apply to contrabnd cigarettes smuggled in from Eastern Europe and North Africa and are sold outside or often in pubs by shifty looking men who carry large backpacks. Word on the street has it that most cigarettes consumed in the UK now are marketed through this tyupe of operation.
But what has Murthy has in mind for wine bottles? Given the almost evangelical fervour of the extreme elements of the health promotion brigade, we can well imagine that it is. The wine label business is competitive and can be lucrative. A well-designed label can cost upwards of $1,000 but some of the best labels are described as priceless.
Can we look forward to our admiration of the artwork on the label of an expensive bottle of wine being ruined by the inclusion of depictions of cancerous tissues and dying alcoholics? Will the tasting notes referring to ‘hints of cinnamon’ and ‘notes of lime and melon’ with a ‘fragrant finish’ have to include information on how much you will increase your chances of popping your clogs from breast/mouth/throat/liver cancer if iyou pop the cork and have a sip? It is more than likely they will.
In the duing days of the abysmal Biden administration Murthy has thrown down a gauntlet for the
Trump administration to pick up, or not. The incoming President is
teetotal and his chosen Health Secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr, is a
recovering alcoholic but as libertarians it's more likely they will stick with warning about alcoholism and let people make up their own minds. After all populism is all about being popular and busybodies, especially in government, have never been popular.
They may realise that, while alcohol can be dangerous and there is no definable safe level this is because as individuals we have a wide range of tolerances, as is described in Monty Python's Philosopher Song:
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
(Copyright Monty Pyton's Flying Circus)
Were all the great philosophers really drunks? Sorry, no idea but most of us are aware that alcohol is enjoyed by billions of people around the world, mostly in moderation. It is
a relaxant, a social mixer and the alcohol industry supports millions
of jobs worldwide. If there is ‘no safe level’, the Vivek Murthys of
this world presumably envisage zero tolerance and wish to ban
consumption completely, akin to the campaign against tobacco.his is because they are contol freaks, a highly dangerous addiction from which there is no cure.
As Homer Simpson said, alcohol is ‘the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems’. It may, indeed, be the cause of a few problems but some of our major national and international problems are currently coming from adherents to a religion that prohibits alcohol. One is bound to wonder: Could there be a link?
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Bye Bye Viz
Dear Viz,
Well, that’s it, I’ve cancelled my direct debit to Viz. After reading it for nearly 40 years and being a subscriber for around 20 years, I’m off.
It’s not necessarily that you’re not funny any more – although strips like Mrs Brady Old Lady long ago lost their pizzaz and are now like chewing through tough gristle – it’s that, like Private Eye in recent years, you’ve become part of the centrist dad, liberal-left, Remainery, PC, metropolitan, globalist, tedious, annoying establishment.
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