Surgeon calls for pub drink limit
A surgeon has called for pub landlords in Scotland to limit customers to three drinks per visit in order to tackle alcohol abuse. John Smith, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, said it was the "logical step" following the ban on smoking in public places.
Source: BBC News (11 December 2005)
posted by Simon Clark @ 09:23
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With the Scottish Executive imposing their will on the Scottish people with the proposed ban on smoking in public places, we are now on the slippery slope when "the medical profession" will now dictate how much we can drink, what we are allowed to eat (control of calory intake), how much exercise we should take, what style of haircut we should have etc etc etc etc.
The ordinary public should sit up now and say enough is enough. No doctor, Chief Medical Officer, corporate HR person has the right to impose their own personal moraise on anyone. Just keep you your day job and let us be.
I challenge any Trade Union to fight for the next person who is sacked for being a smoker or is indirectly discriminate against from gaining employment due to the fact they indulge in a legal activity. Or would this be too "politically incorrect" to handle.
This whole principle of intruding in to our private lives has gone beyond a joke - I stopped seeing the joke sometime back. Bewarned.
For a man of John Smith's so called intelligence, his suggestion to limit drinkers to 3 drinks per pub is totally ludicrous. How and who will police this suggestion?
In my view, he is almost encouraging pub crawls - three drinks per public house visited. The landlords would still be complying with his proposed law.
Where do we get these people from?
They certainly do not have any mandate from anyone. I am happy for John to limit his intake as he sees fit - we can make our own minds up. Get a life.
"In my view, he is almost encouraging pub crawls - three drinks per public house visited. The landlords would still be complying with his proposed law."
Well, people would probably be issued with a smart ration card (chipped to prevent fraud) which would have to be presented to the establishment when buying a drink. The bar person would then swipe the card every time you order and the terminal would interrogate a government database to check you're within your allowance for the 24 hour period (apart from feeding back to the government intimate details of one's drinking habits, such a system would also have the 'advantage' that one's allowance could be modified by the government depending, say, on one's current state of general fitness, obesity and whether one is currently on antibiotics, this information having previously been transferred to the database by one's doctor, a chemist or whatever). But, how would it account for one's own consumption when buying a round? Maybe everyone would have to buy their own heralding the end to rounds as we know them.
1987 Smoking banned on public transport (following Kings Cross fire)
2005 Smoking banned in pubs. Drinking banned on public transport
2023 Drinking banned in pubs?
-great idea for a pub crawl culture three drinks in every pub
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