Alcohol Consumption: Pros & Cons

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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?

The first thing I did was look around some websites...
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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)

Peace be with you all
Omari
 
forgot my 2 cents

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.

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Whatsthepoint said:
forgot my 2 cents

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!
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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
 
wilberhum said:
Excessive consumption of anything will lead to many health risks.
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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.
 
Omari said:
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.
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Whow, I can still drink my 4 beers for 3 more years. :D
 
Omari said:
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
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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.
 
Whatsthepoint said:
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.
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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.
 
Omari said:
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.
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And you think alcohol is bad?

You think it is hard to quit now? Try quiting after smoking more than 40 years.

It ain't gona get any easier.
 
wilberhum said:
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 :peace:
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Omari said:
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.
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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?:)
 
Alcohol related deaths in the US since 1982:

Total fatalities Alcohol related fatalities

Year Number Number Percent
1982 43,945 26,173 60
1983 42,589 24,635 58
1984 44,257 24,762 56
1985 43,825 23,167 53
1986 46,087 25,017 54
1987 46,390 24,094 52
1988 47,087 23,833 51
1989 45,582 22,424 49
1990 44,599 22,587 51
1991 41,508 20,159 49
1992 39,250 18,290 47
1993 40,150 17,908 45
1994 40,716 17,308 43
1995 41,817 17,732 42
1996 42,065 17,749 42
1997 42,013 16,711 40
1998 41,501 16,673 40
1999 41,717 16,572 40
2000 41,945 17,380 41
2001 42,196 17,400 41
2002 43,005 17,524 41
2003 42,643 17,013 40
2004 42,518 16,919 39
2005 43,443 16,885 39

Drinking and driving fatalities by state in 2005 (ranked by highest number of alcohol related deaths):

State Total Fatalities Alcohol-Related Fatalities


Number Percent
California 4329 1719 40
Texas 3504 1569 45
Florida 3543 1471 42
Pennsylvania 1616 636 39
Illinois 1361 580 43
North Carolina 1534 549 36
Georgia 1729 545 32
New York 1429 524 37
Missouri 1257 515 41
Ohio 1323 505 38
Arizona 1177 492 42
South Carolina 1093 464 42
Tennessee 1270 464 37
Alabama 1131 423 37
Michigan 1129 421 37
Louisiana 955 394 41
Mississippi 931 371 40
Wisconsin 815 369 45
Virginia 947 347 37
Indiana 938 320 34
Kentucky 985 313 32
Washington 647 294 45
Oklahoma 802 283 35
New Jersey 748 263 35
Colorado 606 244 40
Maryland 614 235 38
Arkansas 648 233 36
Minnesota 559 201 36
New Mexico 488 189 39
Oregon 488 177 36
Massachusetts 442 171 39
Nevada 427 159 37
Kansas 428 151 35
West Virginia 374 126 34
Montana 251 124 49
Connecticut 274 120 44
Iowa 450 118 26
Nebraska 276 91 33
Idaho 275 89 32
South Dakota 186 80 43
Hawaii 140 71 51
Delaware 134 66 49
Wyoming 170 65 38
New Hampshire 166 60 36
Maine 169 59 35
North Dakota 123 58 47
Rhode Island 87 43 50
Utah 282 37 13
Alaska 72 35 48
Vermont 73 29 40
District of Columbia 48 26 55





National 43,443 16,885 39
 
Drunk driving can be compared to "passive smoking".
Do some research on other deaths that alcohol openes doors to,
 
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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