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Originally Posted by SlackDad
Drinking can be dangerous to the person sat next to you if that person then punches you for example, as a direct effect of intoxication. To say that there is no danger is not true.
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This one statement leaves me concerned that you didn't actually read my previous post(s), the thrust of which I thought was extremely clear:
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Originally Posted by Chris T
I did not say alcohol is not dangerous to health. I said it is not dangerous to health to anything like the same degree as tobacco is.
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and elsewhere:
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Originally Posted by Chris T
This is totally ridiculous. For a start, alcohol simply is not dangerous to someone who happens to be sitting next to someone who is drinking it, in anything like the sense that tobacco is. To claim otherwise is absurd, and, frankly, clutching at straws just a little.
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To paraprase Claire (I think), if I sit next to a smoker, my heath *will* be compromised. If I sit next to a drinker, if I am very unlucky, my health *might* be compromised. It's a matter of degrees, and if tobacco is boiling point, alcohol is somewhere below freezing.
As for your other comments, yes, we wll have to agree to differ. I say it's indefensible because I rate the knowledge of tha harm it does above the freedom of choice aspect. You obviously take the contraty view. We're not about to change our minds on that point.
