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[–] arc@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Warnings now do appear on the back of alcohol in the EU but they're usually small things on the back of the label stating the units of alcohol in the bottle & warning about drinking while pregnant or whatever.

[–] LakesLem@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Problem with these is they state some tiny amount equivalent to like half a glass of wine as the most you should have in a day, even though in the real world.. basically anyone who drinks has a at least a little bit more than that and the moderate majority are fine and not on death's door. I know 70 and 80 year olds in the pub who must drink 10+ units a day (I actually notice the oldies are the worst for wanting like 6%+ ABV beers) and are still there doing fine. So it has a bit of a "boy who cried wolf" effect to slap warnings on about drinking more than 14 units a week / 2 a day / whatever when at least in the UK like "everyone" drinks more than that. It just becomes a lauging stock, "look at that silly over-cautious nanny label". If there should be any warning, IMO it'd be not to binge. If you can't remember what happened the next morning, you drank too much, and it's if you do that too often that it's a major health risk.

Drinking more than these labelled amounts isn't good for you, but health warnings should be more closely aligned to "really bad for you" to be taken seriously imo.

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[–] s0x41@sigmoid.social 4 points 2 years ago

@NightOwl a it's so normalized in our society that people are afraid to acknowledge the dangers.

[–] mySFWaccount@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Don't forget sugar too!

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because those health warnings are meaningless to begin with. We know it's bad for us, we don't need a nanny state to hold our hands at the same time.

[–] crystal@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

We know it's bad for us

You have the knowledge in the back of your mind. The warnings make you have it in active thought.

we don't need a nanny state

Do you truly believe consumers usually/always make rational and reasonable decisions, that don't go against their own interests?

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Dooo it. They'll be a bit more tame, though, because moderate drinking is not nearly as deadly as smoking.

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[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The answer is in the article: “ I don’t want to say that there are necessarily equivalent health risks,”

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No one recreationally smokes the same way that people might drink every once in a while.

You also have a lot of money spent by various alcohol manufacturers to keep alcohol from being treated like tobacco. If anything, drinking went up a lot with millennials.

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