drinking, smoking and some basic biology.
Smoking is *awful*. Not just for you but for me too. There is nothing good about breathing toxic compounds.
Drinking, however, is food. It is part of any organisms method to staying alive. In fact, in the case of Homo sapiens sapiens it has been such an integral part of our evolutionary survival we have got *very* good at it. Even then there is still a great deal of diversity in tolerance*.
Drink too much, too often, you will knacker your liver. The same is true if you take small molecules that are prescribed or the ones that are sold by some bloke in the pub. Things that can effect your body are by definition powerful and dangerous - kinda obvious, no?
Most of the population have control over drink or drugs (illegal that is). For the small proportion that do not have clinical control, no amount of law, taxation or pointless politician posturing will make a noticeable difference.
It will just get the way of our being ADULTS, and prevent another intrusion into our private lives.
P.
*I swear my undergrad dorm was a clinical trial.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
