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Paul Herring at 21:14, 24 December 2017

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Paul Herring: /* Alcohol */

2017-06-26T14:06:47Z

Alcohol

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2017-06-26T13:53:11Z

Alcohol

Paul Herring at 11:02, 3 October 2016

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Paul Herring: /* Why this site? */

2016-05-09T12:12:27Z

Why this site?

Paul Herring at 12:45, 3 May 2016

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 == Food ==
-Various attempts at governmental interference have been seen to 'adjust' what people eat, include [[fat taxes]], [[sugar tax|sugar taxes]] heart-string-pulling (fake) statistics on [[childhood obesity]] and bans on [[junk food]] advertising.
+Various attempts at governmental interference have been seen to 'adjust' what people eat, include [[fat taxes]], [[sugar tax|sugar taxes]], heart-string-pulling (fake) statistics on [[childhood obesity]] and bans on [[junk food]] advertising.
 ==References==
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 == Food ==
-Various attempts at governmental interference have been seen to 'adjust' what people eat, include [[fat taxes]], [[sugar taxes]] heart-string-pulling (fake) statistics on [[childhood obesity]] and bans on [[junk food]] advertising.
+Various attempts at governmental interference have been seen to 'adjust' what people eat, include [[fat taxes]], [[sugar tax|sugar taxes]] heart-string-pulling (fake) statistics on [[childhood obesity]] and bans on [[junk food]] advertising.
 ==References==
 {{Reflist}}

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 == Food ==
-Various attempts at governmental interference have been seen to 'adjust' what people eat, include [[fat taxes]], [[sugar taxes]] and heart-string-pulling (fake) statistics on [[childhood obesity]].
+Various attempts at governmental interference have been seen to 'adjust' what people eat, include [[fat taxes]], [[sugar taxes]] heart-string-pulling (fake) statistics on [[childhood obesity]] and bans on [[junk food]] advertising.
 ==References==
 {{Reflist}}

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 Coming up: <strike>[[Stoptober]]</strike> [[Octabber]]!
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 [[Image:Normanjones.png|link=http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/10058927.Prolific_Nelson_conman_spared_jail_after_collecting_for_fake_charity/]]  <div style="background-color: #E7B8B1;">'''[[ASH]], [[Alcohol Concern]] and [[CRUK]] were, apparently, unavailable for comment.<ref>[http://4liberty.org.uk/2012/11/20/collecting-for-fake-charities Collecting for fake charities] - Orphans of Liberty</ref>'''</div>
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 The UK Government is currently (Mar '12) trying to push through a [[Minimum Pricing‎|minimum price]] per [[Alcohol Units|unit]] of alcohol under the guise of 'preventing [[binge drinking]]' and the 'increased rate of liver disease,'<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17465403 Liver disease deaths reach record levels in England] - BBC News</ref> despite the fact that the annual consumption of alcohol has been decreasing in the past few years<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12397254 BBC: Why is alcohol consumption falling?] - BBC News</ref>, and trying to push people to go to pubs instead of buying their alcohol at the supermarket<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/23/coalition-minimum-alcohol-price-40p Coalition to set minimum alcohol price] - The Guardian</ref>.
-Of course, since the smoking ban in the UK, lots of [[Pub Closures|pubs have closed]].
+Of course, since the smoking ban in the UK, lots of [[Pub Closures|pubs have closed]] that otherwise probably wouldn't have.
 == Internet ==

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	{{quote\|Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C. S. Lewis<ref>[http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/33029.html Quotation #33029] Quotations page</ref>}}		{{quote\|Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C. S. Lewis<ref>[http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/33029.html Quotation #33029] Quotations page</ref>}}
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		+	{{quote\|“Don’t ever think you know what’s right for the other person. He might start thinking he knows what’s right for you.”
		+	― Paul S. Williams, Das Energi}}

	Over the past few years - more and more often - governments, organisations (often funded by the tax payer) and special interest groups (again, often funded by the tax payer,) are enforcing their views on others in ever more vindictive ways, "for your own good," or, more typically, "because we don't like it."		Over the past few years - more and more often - governments, organisations (often funded by the tax payer) and special interest groups (again, often funded by the tax payer,) are enforcing their views on others in ever more vindictive ways, "for your own good," or, more typically, "because we don't like it."

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 [[Image:Whiskeydrainage.png|link=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21614304]] <div style="background-color: #E7B8B1; font-size: 175%;">'''[[Alcohol Concern]] strongly denies existence of "embedded black ops teams"
 <ref>[http://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/alcohol-concern-strongly-denies.html Alcohol Concern] strongly denies existence of "embedded black ops teams" - Mark Wadsworth</ref>'''</div>
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