Chapter 3 Contents

 

 

CHAPTER 3

THE DRINK SCANDAL:
WHOSE HAND ON THE PUMP?

Contents

Chapter 3 pp 53 to 56    Chapter 3 pp 56 to 58          Chapter 3 pp 59 to 62

 

 

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Chapter 3 pp 53 to 56  comprise:

• Ingenious paradox 
• Confronted with a paradox
• Drinking is learnt manners
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• Ritualized options
• The drink problem
• Distinction between 'refuelling' and 'entertainment'
• Are we what we read? 
• No clear national policy on health education 
• Repair rather than maintenance 
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• Why is it a scandal?   Commercial interests dominate
• Condone your companion's weakness
• Takes place between consenting adults 
• People drink up to the prescribed limit
• The behaviour-related illnesses must be considered  
  
• Harmful effects of consuming alcohol wash over on to innocent bystanders
• Increase the amount spent on health education from the paltry 1%
• Chapter 3 pp 53 to 55 comprise the above.
  
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• Chapter 3 pp 56 to 58 comprise:
  
• Government takes in income from drink £24.4m a year
• Well over half of home accidents had an alcohol component 
• Government is gaining annually over four times the cost of alcohol mis-use in society
• Scotland took the cloth off the pump recently
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• The alcohol lake in which we wallow
• £12m spent by Guinness on one  21 month advertising project
• The alcoholic may die in isolated oblivion
• Low credibility for the conflicting health education messages 
• Concern over increasing teenage drunkeness
• Enormous pressures on the young to drink
• The road to good health is paved with good intentions
• Impact of disingenuous advice is negligible 
• Need to distinguish between sound advice and opinion
• Men 18 - 24 the most susceptiblSubsequent generations drink more than their predecessors  
  
• Nutrition Advisory Council is "a notorious muesli-front organisation" using "middle class code" 
• Bolting the bar door after everyone has ordered their drinks 
  
• Alcohol-pushers stand on both sides of the bar
• Alcohol dependency is powered by numerous 'catalytic encouragers'
• Work out the influence which alcohol has on your house
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• Chapter 3 pp 59 to 62 comprise:
  
• Manufacturers hoodwink us into disgusting food. Can the same tricks be played re alcohol?
• Our alcohol has to look good, taste good ...  more at Makeson
• The case for exciting drinks 
• We can fill up on high-octane alcohol 
• You gaze wistfully through the train window
• Bury your head in the empties

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3.2  Conclusion

Addendum on food and alcohol in the extreme.

Ends with a circular model of   "Anorexia alco-circosis".

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Chapter 3 pp 59 to 62  comprise the above.

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