Opinion on "binge drinking"

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I mean, there are clear negative effects of binge drinking, and I say that as a proud binge drinker. No use being intellectually dishonest, whatever one's stance on the issue, by pretending all one's opponents are hysterical do-gooders.

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Sometimes politicians, the media, and schools talk about "binge drinking." Is it a legitimate issue or is it prohibition reborn?

Do you think this is 1994?

What does 1994 have to do with alcohol?

You seem to think it's the Clinton Era and Tipper Gote is fighting to slap labels on CD's.

If kids binge, they might vomit all over their new school uniforms!

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Not entirely related, but I feel like I should post this famous piece:



 there's some great anti-alcohol propoganda from Britain (Worship of Bacchus etc). We certainly don't need your help, thank you very much.

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Yeah. oddly enough the gin craze itself was accidental creation of nationalism iirc - both in the sense that there was a patriotic backlash against French brandy and that the government encouraged brewing to raise grain prices for trade reasons.

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Yes because people were arguing about that?

In Britain - and especially in Scotland, where IceAge originates from - their has been serious questions about our drinking culture and how it differs from the continent, especially in Southern Europe. In fact a lot of New Labour alcohol policy was a bit of governmental societal experiments to see if the British public could be prodded into a cafe culture over the common tradition of drinking to the last drop and then smashing each other with glass bottles. But it's certainly not cause of America - if anything the NHS is a bigger cause.