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Pubs measures 'irresponsible'



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PEOPLE do not realise how much alcohol they are drinking because pub measures have gone up, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has warned.
Its president Professor Ian Gilmore accused the licensing industry of "being irresponsible" by offering larger measures of wine as the standard glass in pubs.

"There is no doubt at all that many people are drinking significantly more than they realise," Prof Gilmore told the BBC.





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  • Last Updated: 12 April 2008 10:29 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Alcohol & binge drinking
 
1

A Friend of Fernando Poo,

,Newington 12/04/2008 13:33:02
The landlord at my local was telling me about this. A 250ml glass of wine has now become normal (used to be 125ml) because people are afraid to appear mean in buying a smaller one. Due to the rounds system, women are effectively being dragooned into drinking twice as much as previously.

The rounds system is at the bottom of a lot of excess drinking in Scotland. In the US and Canada, many bars have waiting staff and tables can run a tab. This makes it easier for people to drink what they want rather than get carried away by drining rounds. We could do worse than move to that system.
2

Neanderthal75,

Rocky Mountains USA 12/04/2008 20:22:22
Hello All,

What idiocy this all is!!!!

Just how far are you Brits going to go, to strip people of their personal responsibility?

First it was the 'wide availability' of booze, then it was the 'low price' of booze, then it was low grade 'cheap booze', then it was the supermarkets offering lower prices (because they can buy in HUGE VOLUME) on booze.

NOW the sorry Social Progressive/PC Lot has devolved onto the SIZE of the glasses/servings.

What sheer stupidity.

Does NO ONE in Great Britain any longer consider it the PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY of the Drinker for his/her actions?

The necessary implication of this article is that people are TOO STUPID to understand that the capacity of their glasses have changed!

A further necessary implication is that people are STILL TOO STUPID to STOP drinking before they get loaded (drunk).

Some are, most aren't. The proof is in the lower numbers of drunk driving arrests, public drunkenness, etc., COMPARED to the total number of drinkers actually out and drinking.

I just hope that someone, somewhere, sometime, in Great Britain, will finally pull their heads out of their a s s e s and come back to REALITY!

Cheers from the Rockies
3

Dr Itchifani Atischu,

Sunset Microsystems inc. 12/04/2008 21:12:39
How can be this? A centimeter still is centimeter and bartender not allowed to put up to make one and half centimeter. At least, not in Nippon! British mans do many funny thing.
4

The Daleks,

Longmen 13/04/2008 01:12:29
People know exactly what they're drinking.

More Nanny State nonsense.
5

The Daleks,

Longmen 13/04/2008 01:12:30
People know exactly what they're drinking.

More Nanny State nonsense.
6

TimW1234,

Ottawa, Canada 13/04/2008 03:05:51
Will the wretched Daleks never leave us alone. Is there not a stupid and unconsidered thought that they have NEVER expressed in their cretinous way?

 

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