Posted on 01/06/2003 12:31:54 PM PST by ZGuy
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:35:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
If you woke up on New Year's Day with a hangover, you must have missed the federal government's not-so-subtle effort to shame you into more moderate celebration. The feds hope to compel moderation in the future.
"Binge drinking on the rise in U.S." was the message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on New Year's Eve.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
NYE is "amatuer night", but I have called it that for close to a decade now. For some strange reason every news outlet seemed to parrot that same phrase when reporting on NYE last week.
I never went to bed...: )
Seriously though, does anyone know if this is one of those "statistics" that has been changed to now make binge drinking look like its rising? I mean, all they have to do is manipulate the defintion of "binge drinking" to mean 5 drinks instead of 7 drinks, and BINGO! we have an epidemic!
Self-preservation of your own job tallying this "information"...
FMCDH
First of all where I grew up getting drunk one evening did not constitute a "binge"- a bona fide binge involved STAYING drunk for a few days.
Second, and here's my bigger rant, the reason college kids are doing so much boozing is because everybody tells them not to- I find it un-freaking-believable that a society considers a 20-year-old to be a child who must be protected from the demon drink. Get real- here in Canada college students can drink whenever and wherever they please and campus drinking is NOT a problem- because it's not verboten nobody does it to get attention. As a bonus, because they can drink in their rooms or at campus pubs they don't drink & drive (best cure for drunk driving is to zone the neighbourhoods so that there's a bar withing staggering distance of every residence). I'm sure Elizabeth Dole's crusade to raise the drinking age has killed thousands of students who wouldn't have taken the wheel if they could drink on campus /rant
You are probably correct, but there would be no way to determine how many.
I think the drinking age should be 18. In college towns, it maye be smart for the city to restrict admission to "bars" to those 21 or over. Let kids who want to drink get three years worth of experience drinking at their houses or dorms before they are turned loose on the streets and in bars. That would be a decent compromise.
Probably not, and they don't want anyone else to have one either.
...and, don't forget, requires a budget increase as well...
Not a bad idea, MOF back in the '80s several nightclubs in Toronto (including my hangout) had an over-21 policy of their own because the behaviour of some students was driving out the regulars. Unfortunately, the "Human Rights" stormtroopers started citing the clubs in question for "discrimination"- seems that "Human Rights" don't apply to bar owners.
Really? We have a wide variety of bars and clubs here, some with 18+ policies and some with 21+ policies. Heck, we even have some places that its 18+ for females and 21+ for males(and the girls are apparently to stupid to see whats going on).
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