23rd September 2009, 2:54 PM
Many restaurants, and all bars, serve alcoholic beverages. Why is there no regulation on the limit and potency of these beverages that can be served to a patron? As long as you are of the federally-mandated (and entirely arbitrary) age of 21, you can have twenty screwdrivers if your wallet and redundant biological systems can support it. You can, of course, also have six beers, walk out without looking too bad, get behind the wheel of your car and end up killing six people when it turns out you weren't quite as sober as you felt.
Yet, there is no regulation on this public safety matter. It is left to the proprietor to determine when enough is too much without any empirical methods available to them to determine just how intoxicated a person really is. In the case of alcohol, you not only have the chronic issues of substance abuse, as I've experienced firsthand being the son of an alcoholic, but the acute danger of drunken driving.
Yet, for some reason, public tobacco use is considered a far greater public safety risk?
Yet, there is no regulation on this public safety matter. It is left to the proprietor to determine when enough is too much without any empirical methods available to them to determine just how intoxicated a person really is. In the case of alcohol, you not only have the chronic issues of substance abuse, as I've experienced firsthand being the son of an alcoholic, but the acute danger of drunken driving.
Yet, for some reason, public tobacco use is considered a far greater public safety risk?
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