17% of 14 to 17 year-olds never drink alcohol. That’s terrible. If you’re over the age of 5 and you don’t have a glass of wine with your Sunday lunch, something’s wrong.
Meanwhile, doctors want to reduce the blood alcohol limit for driving. Quite why doctors are more qualified than anyone else to have an opinion, I have no idea. They should stick to curing ill people. Stricter rules would just catch out perfectly safe drivers.
Oh, and drinking while pregnant is no big deal either.
Update on the doctors (strictly speaking, BMA) calling for more drink laws story: this is the kind of thing that a BMA spokesperson (in this case, one Dr Christopher Spencer Jones, the chairman of the BMA’s public health committee) says with a straight face:
We should stop having alcohol for sale in supermarkets alongside foodstuffs. If you had different doors and cash desks for alcohol in supermarkets, you would be signalling alcohol is not a safe foodstuff
There’s just no arguing with that kind of mentality. The only possible rational response is to be found over at Devil’s Kitchen, which post I found via Charles Pooter, via Brian Micklethwait.
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