Hi this is Craig Beck
from stop drinking expert dot com.
Welcome to today's video. I want to talk about why
you don't see graphic warning labels on alcohol.
Now when I talk about booze like
in these videos and I talk passionately and
I talk sometimes aggressively about it some
people get very upset with me and I
get the odd occasional abusive e-mail saying
hey forget booze cigarettes are much more addictive.
Not true.
You can prove this
in one Google search.
This has been heavily researched.
The most addictive substance
on planet earth is heroin.
Second alcohol not nicotine nicotine not
even third not even fourth fifth nicotine.
Also alcohol kills
someone over 90 seconds.
Now of course cigarettes kill people in
vast numbers and it's very easy to point
cigarette smoking and point to cancer and
say yep you caused this to happen.
It's a little bit muddier with with alcohol but
alcohol is carcinogenic it's been proven beyond all reasonable doubt.
So if you drink alcohol on a
regular basis your chance of cancer increases.
And I'm not talking 5
percent 6 percent 7 percent.
I'm saying if you're a woman and you drink
alcohol on a regular basis your chance of breast
cancer goes up 50 percent if you're a man
your chance of prostate cancer goes up 50 percent.
If you regularly drink alcohol.
Now I know most drinkers don't
even want to think about that.
We just we don't want to hear it.
We just push it out of my la la
la la la la we don't want to hear it.
That's the truth.
So why are there
no graphic labels on alcohol.
And I think the answer is a
conspiracy theory in a in a sense.
But you can also
see the logic in it.
Alcohol is the
general public's friend.
And no government is going to want
to attack the friend of the populace.
Now you could say well hang
on a minute smoking cigarettes with
a friend of the populace
and the government eventually attacked them.
Well they didn't really.
They've they've increased the warning labels
on cigarettes and they've increased the tax.
And the U.S.
government makes 15 billion dollars
a year from cigarette tax.
So I think firstly that's a bit of an illusion
because they're making a serious amount of cash out of cigarettes.
But secondly with alcohol it's different
because alcohol gives the government a way
to sedate the angry masses and
calm everyone down a bit because we
don't like politicians we don't trust
them and they let us down continually.
Nobody likes the government.
Now when we get a new government we have hope and we
say Yes finally someone is going to do something for the people.
Somebody is going to get rid of the
fat cat somebody is going to drain the
swamp and we hope against hope that they're
going to do it and finally there's going
to be an honest politician who's on the
side of the average man and it never
happens.
The new guy comes in the new woman comes in and it's
just as bad as it's ever been and we end up hating them.
We end up saying that dishonest and
we say we need a new government
one that's the people we go
around and around and around and around.
Now governments don't want
angry activated people taking action.
They want them sedated and calm and just
shut up and take what we give you.
And I know this sounds militant and it sounds
like all crazy conspiracy theory but look this isn't.
This is not a new concept this has
been done for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
years back in the day when countries used
to be at war you know physically fighting.
I'm not talking about aerial bombardment
and things like that I'm talking about
guys with swords and bows and
arrows and things like that they used
to before the army was sent
into battle they would get them drunk
they would liberally hand out rum
and you know spirits get them drunk.
Why.
Well they used to tell the army it
was to give them bravery to make them courageous.
That's not true.
It made them stupid you know.
You don't want really intelligent people on the frontline
of a battle because they'll go hang on a minute.
I'm about to get
killed for no reason.
You don't want
that sort of thinking.
You just want captain
you want cannon fodder.
You want people who are willing to
lie down and get shot for you.
That's what you want so they
give them alcohol and stupid people charge
into battle agreeing that they're very
brave and not much has changed really.
You know if you're a government you
don't want to attack the friend of the
populace and you certainly don't want to
take away the thing that's keeping him calm.
So that's one reason.
But the other reason is
the alcohol companies are very powerful.
You know they've got links into government
and there was a kind of half hearted
attempt a few years ago to put
warning labels on alcohol and the government was
getting pressure from health groups and from
medical professionals saying look this stuff is really
dangerous you need to be advising the
public Bessa about just how much damage they're
doing.
And the government
went OK we'll try.
We'll try.
And they spoke to the alcohol industry
and said look we do this for us.
You have to do something you've got
to give us something to go back with.
And the alcohol companies said OK we'll
do something we're not going to do
the full warning thing we're not going
to do the pictures of diseased livers
but here's what we'll do for
you on all our bottles of product.
We're going to put a little warning sign
at the bottom that says drink in moderation.
And the government
went oh great thanks.
Yeah.
That gives us something
we're doing the right thing.
We're advising people
to drink in moderation.
Great thanks.
And you'll see it now.
Bottles of wine bottles whiskey.
Drink in moderation.
Maybe a link to a website.
So why would the alcohol
companies happy to do that.
Not because they care about your health
not because they care about the health of
their consumers because they know people who
are addicted to alcohol can't do that anyway.
So it means nothing to put drink in moderation
on a substance that people can moderate is irrelevant.
It's nothing.
No alcoholic is going to pick up
a bottle and say drink in moderation.
Oh you're kidding me put that down.
People who are hooked on
alcohol can't moderate their drinking.
Putting that warning
sign on is nothing.
It's appeasing the government.
And that's all it is.
And now alcohol generates I think nine and a
half billion dollars in revenue every year for the U.S.
government and it's
growing by 2021.
That figure will be
ten point eight 10.1
eight billion dollars in
revenue for the U.S.
government on taxation of alcohol.
So the motivation isn't there.
You know it doesn't matter how harmful the
drug is and don't let it fool you just
because it hasn't got big graphic warning signs
on that it's not extremely dangerous for your health.
It's just that there's no motivation
for the government to do this.
And in any country you know
this stuff is sedating the angry mob
the people who are running these
huge beer breweries and you know drinks
manufacturers have links to politicians and
it's making them a lot of money.
So this is why alcohol doesn't have warning labels
but it doesn't stop it killing someone every 90 seconds.
One stop you getting cancer.
Basically the way I look at it
the alcohol situation is like the cigarette industry.
But we're about 30 years behind.
You know there was a point when cigarettes were
legally allowed to be touted as a health supplement.
You know doctors
would even describe them.
Good for your
chest smoke a cigarette.
You know alcohol still has that license
they can portray you know drink beer
and you'll get all the girls drink
vodka and you'll turn into James Bond.
They can say anything they want.
The moment we're about 30 years
behind where the tobacco industry is.
It's going to take a
long time before this gets better.
So you have to take action for yourself now because your
government is not going to look after you on this one.
You have to deal with this problem.
Nobody else is going
to fix it for you.
Nobody's going to make it easier.
It is your job your responsibility
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My name is Craig Bakhit season.
