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[–] SPRUNT 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

the doctor.

[–] Noodle07 2 points 2 days ago

World health organisation

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Maybe work on making life less shitty so people don't drink more?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure the WHO is working on that.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Wow! Finally! 🎉🎉 It's astonishing that it took so many decades. We knew, we always knew that alcohol causes cancer. Now we also know that the risk is significant from any amount. And of course, it's not just cancer.

Those labels, they really work. Like, the society to big extend quit smoking thanks to those labels.

Policies curbing smoking weren't popular at the time, people criticized them for being too much of an inconvenience and ineffective at the same time. But they really worked and our society became better and healthier because of them. Funny, how watching the debate about alcohol now, reading people's comment here, you can actually relive this experience now just years later. When people say "they should focus on X instead", and things like that, that's a form of denialism

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Got nuts, but if you're worried about people drinking to much work on making it easier to get by as working class. The shorter lifespan is just less getting crushed by the weight of my living expenses.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Surely shaming people and making them feel bad for their choices will work this time, not just cause more animosity in the world. People with drinking problems usually do so to escape something, to bad we can fix those underlying issues.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (36 children)

Ban all advertising for alcohol, too, please

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You can't advertise alcohol on the TV in my country. Only exception is beer.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

We should be actively warning about and discouraging the consumption of demerit goods. Alcohol, cigarettes, vapes, SSBs, ultra processed food all completely destroy the health of communities all around the world. Not just in the States, but also in both developed and developing countries. We've seen study after study after study that these do nothing but make us addicted to slop that shortens our lifespan and makes us unhappy.

But the organization that is offering this advice cannot even act in the 3rd largest country in the world by population because of """misinformation""" from covid.

WHO basically fully prevented the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria, and it did not affect my parents. If WHO didn't act, I probably wouldn't be alive right now. To think that people genuinely think that leaving it is good goes against every line of thinking I have used in my entire life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Isn't this already common knowledge? No one is drinking alcohol because they think it's good for you.

People: drink alcohol to help them survive being exploited under capitalism

WHO: "best I can do is tell you that you're going to die sooner"

Also, I don't know if anyone's researched this, but I'm 99% sure the stress chemicals your body generates from being a wage slave and living paycheck to paycheck your entire life are far more carcinogenic than alcohol. Maybe that should come with a label too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The facts are alcohol doesn't help anyone to survive shit. We know that it's the opposite, it makes life of people that consume it more miserable.

It instead accumulates together with the stress you experience within your life. It adds more stress, not removes it. Cancer is just one thing, but alcohol is very disrupting to your endocrine (hormones) system, mental health.

What you're doing is a form of denialism. That denialism comes precisely from what those labels are addressing. You're being constantly exposed to the image of alcohol as something to enjoy, a pleasure, relief. It's constantly reinforced by movies, TV shows, media, advertisements.

It's not about knowledge. It's about exposure. If you're constantly exposed to an image of alcohol as a positive thing in your life then you will deny it's impact despite the facts, science, and knowledge

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The facts are alcohol doesn’t help anyone to survive shit

Hard disagree... I did it just last night.

Not everyone who drinks is an alcoholic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Not all problems from alcohol come from alcoholism.

There was a thought process that alcohol could apply some health benefits below a certain consumption level.

It has been now accepted that there is no "safe" amount of alcohol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not the same thing as saying it doesn't help you survive shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Alcohol did help people survive in the past.

Beer was a very common way to create a potable water source in the past and provided calories that could be preserved over time.

Nowadays, the use of alcohol as a preservative isn't necessary. A reevaluation of alcohol in all its forms in the modern context shows that it causes a net harm to health, even at low volumes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

There were a bunch of lies published by alcohol industry-backed groups about how a glass of red wine is good for your heart and shit. It probably would be helpful to bust those shitty myths.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

Yes please. Sick of the double standard. Can't buy flavoured nicotine anymore but can still buy sickeningly flavoured liquor.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Can we do all petroleum products too?

this product is causing mass extinction of an estimated X thousand species

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