Wine with meals
Sir, — Surely Dr Beaven is aware that in the wineproducing countries, France and Italy, where wine is consumed with meals, and even infants are given wine and water as though it were “jungle juice,” they have the highest rate of alcoholism in the world? One-third of our hospital wards are filled with the victims of drunken drivers. Some, in the neurological ward of Dunedin Hospital, youngsters in their teens, will never be normal mentally or walk or lead normal lives again. I should
like to see alcohol prohibited in New Zealand, just as opium is banned in China. Both are dangerous drugs. Failing prohibition, the hotels should be closed from 6 p.m. The craving for alcohol is the cause of most of the armed robberies in this country, and the cost of it and the addiction to it, may be related to the alarming increase in industrial strikes in New Zealand. — Yours, etc., S. L. DONALDSON. May 8, 1979.
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