The smoking debate

[Dark Lord Neo]

Your mentions of alchohol being kept from children reminded me of somthing
Is it true that in some areas of the US stores like 7-11 and Wal-Mart sell alchohol, i mean even beer and wine?

It was only recently that the government here(provincial) started to privatize liquor sales (including beer and wine) but they are still in seprate stores. In some small comunities a convenience store may have an alchohol section but only because the comunity can't support a store that only sells alchohol, and these are usually kept behind the counter and yo have to fill out a form to get them. In some provinces like BC until recently even in government owned stores you had to fill out a form to get alchohol since it was kept behind the counter, and in BC they have finally alowed private stores that sell beer and wine but liquor can still only be sold in government store. Other provinces still have complete government control over alchohol sales while in others beer and wine can be sold in private store but liquor can't.
In Quebec though you have always been able to get beer at the corner store, but not hard liquor