Alcohol Consumption: Pros & Cons

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aadil77 said:
bro you have to be extremely careful when saying that something is haraam, smoking isn't haraam as it doesn't intoxicate you, and its not mentioned in quran etc

if smoking was haraam then millions would be guilty of it
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Well In islam you cannot harm yourself in anyway, smoking can harm your body just as much as drinking. But tobacco itself is not written in the Quran, but I follow the Sharia, and that states that anything that harms your body in anyway is haraam.

Those millions smoking muslims are guilty!
 
^^ yah brother kryton thats true its like commiting sucide and thats soooo haram so yes it wud be considered haram... and also ,...sorry to get off topic here but some lady died from drinking too much water.
 
^^Smoking will cut of 5-30 years of your life!

Anything unhealthy is against the Sharia (as far as I know), so drinking barrels of water and ignoring the pain in your stomach is also haraam.

Not to mention that a normal human cannot die through drinking pure water. The more you drink the more you will be in need of the bathroom, the water wont stay inside, it will get out in a matter seconds or minuts.
 
^^^ i kno

and about the water.. i meant like she was in a water drinking contest and she drank soooo much her head started to hurt and then when she got back home her head was hurting verrry much and she just died...and doctors examined everything and said that drinking as much water as she did highered the pressure in like her brain or whatever till she died...
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However, even water intake requires moderation
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water is my favourite drink. i drink at least 3 gallons per day and have ever since i can remember.
 
Interesting conversation!

In Australia tobacco is the biggest drug of abuse, causing greater morbidity and mortality than all other drugs combined. But alcohol comes in next - not so much because of things like drink driving, but the long term health effects of heavy alcohol intake (listed previously). And the social effects are also very damaging, with the Indigenous communities being in the news particularly over the last year (though certainly not the only communities to which alcohol does great damage). Here are my brief thoughts.

1. All alcohol is not the same. I would not regard having a glass of wine with dinner, or splashing some port in a stew as comparable to drinking 24 cans of cheap beer to get completely drunk.

2. The all-or-nothing approach is not helpful in many societies. I think Australia needs more models of appropriate alcohol use, not just tee-totalers vs alcoholics.

3. If alcohol is condemned, tobacco must be condemned many times stronger.

4. The adverse effects of alcohol on society are proportional to the price per unit of alcohol. I actively campaign against cheap & nasty alcohol because it is this that is abused (indeed it is marketted towards those most vulnerable).

5. I still enjoy the rare glass of red wine or home brew beer. Mmm.
 

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