The first ad on your local television channel might be one that encourages / promotes the consumption of Alcohol. The one right after may strongly disagree with it.
My hypothesis:
Is the consumption of Alcohol good, or bad for the Average Person?
Health Benefits.
It may:
*Reduce your risk of developing heart disease, peripheral vascular disease and intermittent claudication
*Reduce your risk of dying of a heart attack
*Possibly reduce your risk of strokes, particularly ischemic strokes
*Lower your risk of gallstones
*Possibly reduce your risk of diabetes
Health Risks.
Exessive consumption will lead to many health risks,
including:
*Cancer of the pancreas, mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus and liver, as well as breast cancer
*Pancreatitis, especially in people with high levels of triglycerides in their blood
*Sudden death in people with cardiovascular disease
*Heart muscle damage (alcoholic cardiomyopathy) leading to heart failure
*Stroke
*Brain atrophy (shrinkage)
*Cirrhosis of the liver
*Miscarriage
*Fetal alcohol syndrome in an unborn child, including impaired growth and *nervous system development
*Injuries due to impaired motor skills
*Suicide
My conclusion:
Alcohol is something the body does not require, and the excessive consumption is a major health risk.
Allah also says in the Quran:
"O you who believe, do not approach the Salat while you are intoxicated, until you know what you are saying. Nor if you have had intercourse, unless travelling, until you bathe. And if you are ill, or traveling, or one of you has excreted feces, or you had sexual contact with the women, and could not find water, then you shall select from the clean soil; you shall wipe your faces and hands. God is Pardoning, Forgiving." (4:43)
"O you who believe, intoxicants, and gambling, and altars, and arrows of chance are tools of affliction used by the devil. You shall avoid him so that you may be successful." (5:90)
"They ask you about intoxicants and gambling. Say: “In them is great harm, and a benefit for the people; but their harm is greater than their benefit.” And they ask you how much are they to give, Say: “The excess.” It is thus that God clarifies for you the revelations that you may think." (2:219)
"And from the fruits of the palm trees and the grapes you make wine and a good provision. In that is a sign for a people who comprehend." (16:67)
The moderate consumption of alchohol, especially red wine, is very beneficial.
The excessive consumption of any substance can be a major health risk.
I can't imagine friday night's without it.
The moderate consumption of alchohol, especially red wine, is very beneficial.
The excessive consumption of any substance can be a major health risk.
I can't imagine friday night's without it.
PRO!
Incase you didn't know...alcohol is quite addicting. After one bottle, drinking a second is almost inevitable [if available]. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Excessive consumption of anything will lead to many health risks.
Perhaps...maybe I should have included what is considered to be "Excessive consumption"...so here it is
What counts as a drink?
A drink is defined as 12 ounces (oz.) of beer, 5 oz. of wine or 1.5 oz. of 80-proof distilled spirits. Again, keep in mind that people age 65 and older shouldn't drink more than one drink a day. With increasing age, adults break down alcohol more slowly, leading them to become intoxicated more quickly and increasing alcohol's damaging effects.
Perhaps...maybe I should have included what is considered to be "Excessive consumption"...so here it is
What counts as a drink?
A drink is defined as 12 ounces (oz.) of beer, 5 oz. of wine or 1.5 oz. of 80-proof distilled spirits. Again, keep in mind that people age 65 and older shouldn't drink more than one drink a day. With increasing age, adults break down alcohol more slowly, leading them to become intoxicated more quickly and increasing alcohol's damaging effects.
Whow, I can still drink my 4 beers for 3 more years.
Incase you didn't know...alcohol is quite addicting. After one bottle, drinking a second is almost inevitable [if available]. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Peace
Omari
It is.
Many things are addictive, coffee, cigarettes, coke... The difference between those and alchohol is that tehy don't bring any or significantly less benefits.
Most people drink wine after lunch or dinner, a very small percentage of alchohol consumers are drunks.
It is.
Many things are addictive, coffee, cigarettes, coke... The difference between those and alchohol is that tehy don't bring any or significantly less benefits.
Most people drink wine after lunch or dinner, a very small percentage of alchohol consumers are drunks.
And yet drunk driving is one of the leading causes of death in western countries.
I am aware that many people drink alcoholic beverages and intend no abuse of the drink, but there are millions, 10s of millions perhaps, that are victims of alcoholism.
I smoke , quite unfortunatly, and I'm trying to quit, and I know how hard and addicting it is, maybe the similarity between the two drugs is what caused me to create this thread.
Ask me for statistics on the number of deaths in Canada ALONE due to Alcohol consumption.
I smoke , quite unfortunatly, and I'm trying to quit, and I know how hard and addicting it is, maybe the similarity between the two drugs is what caused me to create this thread.
And you think alcohol is bad?
You think it is hard to quit now? Try quiting after smoking more than 40 years.
And you think alcohol is bad? Yes i do, and it is. An argument against my point is baseless.
You think it is hard to quit now? Try quiting after smoking more than 40 years.
Yeah, but I had many reasons to start, some reasons that even you will agree with...Afghanistan kinda lacks Qualified Teen Mediators. lol.
It ain't gona get any easier. Thanks for the support
And yet drunk driving is one of the leading causes of death in western countries.
I am aware that many people drink alcoholic beverages and intend no abuse of the drink, but there are millions, 10s of millions perhaps, that are victims of alcoholism.
I smoke , quite unfortunatly, and I'm trying to quit, and I know how hard and addicting it is, maybe the similarity between the two drugs is what caused me to create this thread.
Ask me for statistics on the number of deaths in Canada ALONE due to Alcohol consumption.
America and Canada have got very harsh rectrictions on alchohol consumption. In most European countries the age limit is 18 and it isn't hard for a minor to get drunk. (which is good actually, I'll elaborate if you want me to) Anyway, Europans are generally known to drink more than their american counterparts.
A EU study showed that alcohol causes the death of 115,000 people anually in Europe.
Only passive smoking kills 19,000 a year. Active smoking kills several hundreds of thousand a year. If anything should be banned, it's smoking...
Ok, what are the stats on the number of deaths in Canada due to Alcohol consumption?
America has tried banning Alcohol before, the Fitrah every human has knows it leads to corruption. However the Ban did not work.
[PIE]Enforcement of Prohibition was originally assigned to the Internal Revenue Service, which is why the enforcement agents who destroyed moonshine stills were called revenuers. Only in 1930 was enforcement transferred to the Justice Department. After Prohibition, tax collection on liquor was returned to the IRS, which was also charged with the registration of machine guns and sawed-off shotguns and enforcement of taxes on tobacco. These responsibilities were spun off in 1972 to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
Prohibition failed because it was unenforceable. By 1925, half a dozen states, including New York, passed laws banning local police from investigating violations. Prohibition had little support in the cities of the Northeast and Midwest.
Prohibition did briefly pay some public health dividends. The death rate from alcoholism was cut by 80 percent by 1921 from pre-war levels, while alcohol-related crime dropped markedly. But seven years after Prohibition went into effect, the total deaths from adulterated liquor reached approximately 50,000, and many more cases of blindness and paralysis. According to one story, a potential buyer who sent a liquor sample to a laboratory for analysis was shocked when a chemist replied: "Your horse has diabetes."
Prohibition quickly produced bootleggers, speakeasies, moonshine, bathtub gin, and rum runners smuggling supplies of alcohol across state lines. In 1927, there were an estimated 30,000 illegal speakeasies, twice the number of legal bars before Prohibition. Many people made beer and wine at home. Finding a doctor to sign a prescription for medicinal whiskey, sold at drugstores was relatively easy.
Cleveland had 1,200 legal bars in 1919, a year before Prohibition went into effect. By 1923, the city had an estimated 3,000 illegal speakeasies, along with 10,000 stills. An estimated 30,000 city residents sold liquor during Prohibition and another 100,000 made home brew or bathtub gin for themselves and friends.
Prohibition also fostered corruption and contempt for law and law enforcement among large segments of the population. Harry Daughtery, attorney general under Warren Harding, accepted bribes from bootleggers. George Remus, a Cincinnati bootlegger, had a thousand salesmen on his payroll, many of them police officers. He estimated that half his receipts went as bribes. Al Capone's Chicago organization reportedly took in $60 million in 1927 and had half the city's police on its payroll.
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Contrast this to when Mohammad(SAW) recieved the revelation making Alcohol Haram. The Sahabas went spreading the news around Medina, some where pouring wine into a glass and they immediatley threw it away. The ones who had it in their cups threw it away, the ones who were about to drink it spat it out and some of those who drank it induced vomit to rid it off their system.
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