Alcohol should be as easily available as Pepsi or Coke: Sindh MPA

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Re: Alcohol should be as easily available as Pepsi or Coke: Sindh MPA

@Sa1eem

^^^ You do not have to get personal. Anyhow, I live in UK so if anyone wants to buy Alcohol where I live, they just have to buy like any food item from super market.

I do not know if you consume Alcohol or not, as it is your words. Maybe you are not because you may not be moving amongst middle class affluent Pakistanis. Anyhow, I am not concerned if you consume Alcohol or not, as what I am saying is about Pakistani society itself.

At present, according to WHO (World health Organisation), around 10 percent ‘male’ Pakistanis above the age of 15 are consuming Alcohol, and Alcohol consumption in Pakistan has almost tripled per head what it was before Alcohol was banned in 1977. It means, Pakistan had astronomical consumption increase of Alcohol after ban. Here is detail and chart.

http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/en/pakistan.pdf

Nothing personal. Just saying I don’t want my kids to have easier access to alcohol as you do in UK. Just saying that in my family and friends circle, nobody drinks and some of them would be drinking if alcohol was easily available.

If a vice is becoming common in Pakistan society, should we legalize it? More than half of Pakistani males smoke. Should we promote it further? 40% of cancer patients in Pakistan reach that stage because of smoking. More than a 100,000 deaths every year because of smoking. Reason: easy availability.

The idea that open and easy availability will reduce alcohol consumption is the MOST ABSURD in my opinion. Its like saying that allowing young kids to drive will reduce traffic accidents since incidence of children driving cars is increasing anyways.