Alcohol plays major role in chronic disease around the glob. Alcohol use is
deeply embedded in many societies. Overall, 4% of the global burden of disease
is attributable to alcohol, which accounts for about as much death and
disability globally as tobacco or hypertension. Overall, there are causal
relationships between alcohol consumption and more than 60 types of disease and
injury including traffic fatalities. Alcohol consumption is the leading risk
factor for disease burden in low mortality developing countries and the third
largest risk factor in developed countries. Beyond the numerous chronic and
acute health effects, alcohol use is associated with widespread social, mental
and emotional consequences. The global burden related to alcohol consumption,
both in terms of morbidity and mortality, is considerable. Alcohol-related
problems are the result of a complex interplay between individual use of
alcoholic beverages and the surrounding cultural, economic, physical
environment, political and social contexts. Alcohol cannot be considered an
ordinary beverage or consumer commodity since it is a drug that causes
substantial medical, psychological and social harm by means of physical
toxicity, intoxication and dependence. There is increasing evidence that
genetic vulnerability to alcohol dependence is a risk factor for some
individuals. Fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effects, preventable
causes of mental retardation, may result from alcohol consumption during
pregnancy. Growing scientific evidence has demonstrated the harmful effects of
consumption prior to adulthood on the brains, mental, cognitive and social
functioning of youth and increased likelihood of adult alcohol dependence and
alcohol related problems among those who drink before full physiological
maturity. Regular alcohol consumption and binge drinking in adolescents can
negatively affect school performance, increase participation in crime and
adversely affect sexual performance and behavior. Alcohol advertising and
promotion is rapidly expanding throughout the world and is increasingly
sophisticated and carefully targeted, including to youth. It is aimed to
attract, influence, and recruit new generations of potential drinkers despite
industry codes of self-regulation that are widely ignored and often not
enforced. Effective alcohol social policy can put into place measures that
control the supply of alcohol and/or affect population-wide demand for alcohol
beverages. Comprehensive policies address legal measures to: control supply and
demand, control access to alcohol (by age, location and time), provide public
education and treatment for those who need assistance, levy taxation to affect
prices and to pay for problems generated by consumption, and harm-reduction
strategies to limit alcohol-related problems such as impaired driving and
domestic violence. Alcohol problems are highly correlated with per capita
consumption so that reductions of use can lead to decreases in alcohol
problems. Because alcohol is an economic commodity, alcohol beverage sales are
sensitive to prices, i.e., as prices increase, demand declines, and visa versa.
Price can be influenced through taxation and effective penalties for
inappropriate sales and promotion activities. Such policy measures affect even
heavy drinkers, and they are particularly effective among young people. Heavy
drinkers and those with alcohol-related problems or alcohol dependence cause a
significant share of the problems resulting from consumption. However, in most
countries, the majority of alcohol-related problems in a population are
associated with harmful or hazardous drinking by non-dependent 'social'
drinkers, particularly when intoxicated. This is particularly a problem of
young people in many regions of the world who drink with the intent of becoming
intoxicated. Although research has found some limited positive health effects
of low levels of alcohol consumption in some populations, this must be weighed
against potential harms from consumption in those same populations as well as
in population as a whole. Thus, population-based approaches that affect the
social drinking environment and the availability of alcoholic beverages are
more effective than individual approaches (such as education) for preventing
alcohol related problems and illness. Alcohol policies that affect drinking
patterns by limiting access and by discouraging drinking by young people
through setting a minimum legal purchasing age are especially likely to reduce
harms. Laws to reduce permitted blood alcohol levels for drivers and to control
the number of sales outlets have been effective in lowering alcohol problems.
In recent years some constraints on the production, mass marketing and patterns
of consumption of alcohol have been weakened and have resulted in increased
availability and accessibility of alcoholic beverages and changes in drinking
patterns across the world. This has created a global health problem that
urgently requires governmental, citizen, medical and health care intervention.
Arike Joel Pundro
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:23:36 +0000
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WestNileNet] Fw: WEDDING TEST- read the end
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Edward M. Isingoma <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, 30 April, 2010 15:03:57
Subject: FW: WEDDING TEST- read the end
Younger Men/Ladies below 50 years
Can you pass that test?
ooops!!!!!
THE
WEDDING TEST
I
was a very happy man. My wonderful girlfriend
and I had
been dating for over a year, and so we
decided to get
married. There was only one
little thing bothering
me....It was her beautiful
younger sister.
My prospective sister-in-law was twenty-two, wore
very
tight miniskirts, and generally was bra-less. She
would regularly bend down when she was near
me,
and I always got more than a nice view. It had to
be
deliberate. Because she never did it when she was
near
anyone else.
One day her 'little' sister called and
asked me to
come over to check the wedding invitations.
She was
alone when I arrived, and she whispered to me
that she
had feelings and desires for me that she
couldn't
overcome. She told me that she wanted me just
once
before I got married and committed my life to her
sister.
Well, I was in total shock, and couldn't say a
word.
She said, 'I'm going upstairs to my bedroom, and
if
you want one last wild fling, just come up and get
me.'
I was stunned and frozen in shock as I watched
her go
up the stairs. I stood there for a moment, then
turned
and made a beeline straight to the front door.. I
opened the door, and headed straight towards my car.
Lord... and behold, my entire future family was standing
outside, all clapping!
With tears in his
eyes, my father-in-law hugged me and
said, 'We are very
happy that you have passed our
little test. We couldn't
ask for a better
man for our daughter. Welcome to the
family.'
And the moral of this story is:
Always keep your condoms in your
car……
Hmmmm…. the dude was going for Condoms!
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