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- From: bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner)
- Newsgroups: tx.politics
- Subject: Re: Repost from alt.beer(Beer laws in Texas)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.155020.10860@novell.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:50:20 GMT
- References: <1993Jan17.165112.14290@digi.lonestar.org> <1993Jan19.144510.17159@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1993Jan21.153153.3737@digi.lonestar.org>
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- In article <1993Jan21.153153.3737@digi.lonestar.org> gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo) writes:
- >If prohibition was a FAILURE (your shouting upper case) that increased
- >consumption of alcohol, then how do you explain the even higher rates
- >of consumption and alcoholism today, now that it is freely available?
-
- Hmmm, could it be because there are _more_ people? Anyway, I was
- reading somewhere that in the last 10 year or so, consumption of beer
- and wines has gone up while consumption of hard liquor has gone down.
- So it could be that people are drinking more beer and wine which is
- raising the numbers.
-
- But anyway, Gerry, what do you care what people drink? Assuming that
- you don't have to deal with the after effects of other people's
- drinking (drunk driving, carpet stains, etc...) what is your
- objection?
-
- Brendan
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