Rome City Commission Amends Alcohol Control Ordinance

Came across this alcohol control news report under the title “ City to weigh West Third project alcohol rules”, in: http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/680/public/news877960.html
I choose it today for my comment on the prevention of alcohol(ism) problems.

Here I would like to provide the most important information to the Rome City Commission’s board, before they consider “licenses of selling beer, wine and liquor”.

All the available alcohol epidemiological research survey evidences on this matter overwhelmingly points to the fact that almost all the alcohol(ism) problems especially the drunk driving/accidents caused by the people drinking those high alcohol drug (having around and above 5%) content drinks, which the alcohol authorities license for the public consumption under the banner of ‘Standard Alcohol Drinks’. The most popular are the regular beers containing around 5% alcohol, which treacherously lead the people into excessive alcohol consumption thus into several alcohol(ism) problems including those drunk driving/accidents! Now the most important thing that one should know on this matter is that there are no such research evidence that points or proves that the low-alcohol drinks (preferably having around and below 2% alcohol) causing any of those alcohol(ism) problems. Therefore it mostly proves to be safe in this matter.

However the authorities instead of allowing only the safe low-alcohol drinks, also license those extremely dangerous alcohol(ism) problem causing “high-alcohol” content drinks on the basis claiming; ‘all alcohol drinks irrespective of the alcohol content in them high or low some how equally or potentially causes the alcohol(ism) problems’, without having any concrete research evidence to prove their claims. Therefore under the law it becomes a serious “misconduct” on their part.

The prudent purpose of licensing the alcohol drinks for the public consumption is to let the people enjoy the pleasures of the “drinking” with moderate amount of alcohol consumption. In fact the low-alcohol content drinks (that I mentioned above) can ideally fulfill or serve this above purpose, so there is no need of high-alcohol drinks to do it. In fact the main purpose of licensing the latter is to allow or facilitate excessive alcohol consumption in the people that makes them highly intoxicated or drunk that in-turn creates almost all alcohol(ism) problems including the drunk driving.

The main reason or the “vested interest” behind licensing and marketing the “high-alcohol” drinks is that it fetches most of the profit that the alcohol drinks marketing bosses get in the entire business. It also generates the huge alcohol tax revenue for the Government and on its way it bestows hefty fringe benefits on the “undertakers” (researchers, prevention, treatment providers etc.) dealing with this devastating alcohol(ism) problems.

Therefore I ask the Rome City Commission’s board members to study deep into the above mentioned alcohol(ism) fact before they consider More detailed standard for licensees selling beer, wine and liqueurs.

To know more on this issue, I suggest to read the principle posts in this “Drunk-Driving Root Cause” weblog. Its links given below.

http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/alcohol-research-misconductcause-drunk.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/alcohol-prohibition-mission-failure.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/standard-alcohol-drinks-authorities.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/alcohol-drinking-is-it-matter-of-choice.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/alcohol-bosses-real-culprits-behind.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-driving-with-high-bac-is-wrong.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/proposing-new-standard-alcohol-drinks.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/02/make-money-transaction-all-in.html

Valerian Texeira
Alcoholics Curewell