Drinkers are on notice

The US 'public health' industry is preparing the ground for a renewed assault on alcohol. The Surgeon General called for cigarette-style warnings on booze last week in a report that he put out to take people's minds off the rather more rigorous report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in December which once more confirmed that moderate drinkers live longer than teetotallers.

The ICCPUD report (Interagency Coordination Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking) is expected to strike another blow for the neo-temperance lobby. Stuffed with anti-alcohol academics, don't be surprised if it goes beyond its remit and spouts 'no safe level' dogma.

 

This all serves to grease the slippery slope. Denormalisation, here we come. And they're not even hiding it.

 

Timothy Rebbeck, Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention, told USA Today that considering putting warning labels on alcohol is just a start. He noted that after the surgeon general first warned about the dangers of smoking in 1964, it still took decades to develop strategies to curb smoking, such as limiting ads for cigarette, banning them in public spaces, and taxing them.

“It took time for people’s mindset to change and it’s going to be the same for alcohol,” he said.

 

Drinkers, you have been warned.

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