Dorothy makes an interesting point over this debate, in one of the
smaller net groups:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/panchayat-india/message/209

She asks:

Can 45% Goans be alcoholic, as the title suggests, if 45% consume
alcohol? Does it refer to 45% adult Goans (both men and women)? Not
many women give the impression of suffering from alcoholism in Goa...

While not attempting to minimise the problem of alcoholism here
(fuelled by State policies too, including in post-Liberation times),
Dorothy's questions do strike a lay-reader like me as having some
merit. FN

Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490


On 20 November 2010 10:26, Gilbert Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps the solution is to start educating children about the dangers of 
> alcohol
> instead of the "cool image" that they perceive from drinking.
> In USA and many European countries, now cigarette cartoons are going to carry
> pictures of victims of smoking on the pack.

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