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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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 Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 1:37 am Post subject: Alcohol kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide: WHO |
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Geneva (AFP) - Alcohol kills 3.3 million people worldwide each year, more than AIDS, tuberculosis and violence combined, the World Health Organization said Monday, warning that booze consumption was on the rise.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/23456990/alcohol-kills-one-person-every-10-seconds-worldwide-who/
But far from everyone indulges. Nearly half of all adults worldwide have never touched alcohol, and nearly 62 percent say they have not touched a drink in the past year, the report showed.
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| Bah. A bunch of those people wouldn't be alive in the first place if it wasn't for alcohol hookin up their parents. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| The link brings me to The Rising Costs of College. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| Complete this sentence: alcohol doesn't kill people . . . |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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In many cases it indirectly kills people.
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drinking is linked to more than 200 health conditions, including liver cirrhosis and some cancers.
Alcohol abuse also makes people more susceptible to infectious diseases like TB, HIV and pneumonia. |
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guavashake
Joined: 09 Nov 2013
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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'Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.'
Benjamin Franklin |
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wishfullthinkng
Joined: 05 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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what is the point of this article?
cars kill people, sitting and watching loads of tv kills people, the crap people eat kills them...
people need to die. it's how the world works so kick back and have a delicious beer. |
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radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Alcohol is a disinfectant and used in medicines. So its also saves lives. |
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Scorpion
Joined: 15 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| radcon wrote: |
| Alcohol is a disinfectant and used in medicines. So its also saves lives. |
KAPPOW!
Alcohol also lowers stress, hence lowers blood pressure. It also makes people happier (by and large). The trick, as with everything in life, is not to abuse it.
I thoroughly enjoy alcohol. Glad it's there. |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| It's one way to cheat another major killer ....... Time ...... |
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Shimokitazawa
Joined: 14 Dec 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 8:05 am Post subject: |
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Brendan Behan's wife said something along the lines of, "If he only would have stayed with the beer..."
Hard alcohol really takes it's toll. On the other hand, beer makes you fat and diabetic.
I've been warned to stay away from hard alcohol and I think it's probably true. Enjoy your beers, try to eat healthy and get some physical exercise every day or every other day.
Stay off the hard stuff. |
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Shimokitazawa
Joined: 14 Dec 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 8:08 am Post subject: |
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And, just watching You Tube interviews of Slash of Guns 'N Roses recently. the guy drank so much he had a heart problem. Some sort of pacemaker or something had to be put into his chest.
And the bass player, forget his name, also almost died from alcoholism. Some internal organ just burst or something.
Again, it's all hard alcohol, not beer, that was killing these guys. |
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Shimokitazawa
Joined: 14 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Scorpion wrote: |
| I thoroughly enjoy alcohol. Glad it's there. |
Reminds me of a Charles Bukowski quote: "This [alcohol] is going to help me for a very long time."
And something about, 'drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return.' |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 4:09 am Post subject: |
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Sorry but I don't take the "World Health Organization" seriously, their name alone is ridiculous.
And if they want to talk about a substance that is destroying homo sapien's lives they can start talking about *sugar*, alcohol is nothing compared to that stuff. |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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