Good for them. I was visiting Dublin this past summer. One early morning, I stumbled across a guy having alcohol withdrawal seizures (according to his friend that didn't have a phone, so I called 112 for them). Later that day, I watched a guy pass out drunk in the road. Construction workers came from a nearby site and placed cones around him so he wouldn't get run over.
Maybe my experience was abnormal, but it was shocking.
I remember warning labels tearing my childhood friends family apart. His dad would come home late at night after reading too many labels and beat his wife while my friend hid in his room.
Informed consumers are the basis of rational market behavior. Even libertarians tend to be on board with objective informational requirements and disclosures.
Not really; in my time in Ireland I've seen more of this kind off stuff than all the rest of my life combined. I also know more Irish teetotallers than of any other nationality, which probably isn't a coincidence either.
To get to this amount of alcohol for reference, a pretty standard bottle of spirits is 750 mL and 80 proof, or 40% alcohol by volume. so if you regularly bought a One liter bottle of liquor you would need to drink 35.75 bottles of Jameson a year, or larger, and pricier, 35.75 bottles of Smirnoff.
That is the average, and from public health studies I've read in the past alcohol consumption by average has a serious barbell effect altering the average.
Personally I have three drinks and think " I should slow down"
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 42.2 ms ] threadMaybe my experience was abnormal, but it was shocking.
Labels are definitely more harmful
That sounds like a personal problem.
Informed consumers are the basis of rational market behavior. Even libertarians tend to be on board with objective informational requirements and disclosures.
Not really; in my time in Ireland I've seen more of this kind off stuff than all the rest of my life combined. I also know more Irish teetotallers than of any other nationality, which probably isn't a coincidence either.
To get to this amount of alcohol for reference, a pretty standard bottle of spirits is 750 mL and 80 proof, or 40% alcohol by volume. so if you regularly bought a One liter bottle of liquor you would need to drink 35.75 bottles of Jameson a year, or larger, and pricier, 35.75 bottles of Smirnoff. That is the average, and from public health studies I've read in the past alcohol consumption by average has a serious barbell effect altering the average.
Personally I have three drinks and think " I should slow down"
[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/moderate-drinking.ht...