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Govt has published an alcohol consultation paper and so will be required to look at views on that. It's on the Govt website www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations. And I think there are interesting views on this site too the debate is both positive and negative, read the coments!
DM, Midlothian. Thursday, 19 June, 2008, 18:08. Report this comment.
To Alex: You say the papers are the source for the outcry of 'our kids are drinking too much.' Please check the figures, you dont need to go near a newspaper, search journals online. You will be gobsmacked. This website was set up around current issues that are circulating in the media and minds of the nation - the Gov want to know our views. Not that they'll care much or ever respond on this site.
Nicola, Glasgow. Tuesday, 17 June, 2008, 16:27. Report this comment.
Does it seem to anyone else that this, Scottish Executive led project is rather focussed towards the negative? Almost all of the questions clearly prompt the reader to an anti-alcohol answer. Are our kids drinking too much? (Well the papers say they are). Does alcohol affect the way we look? (Not normally, actually, but if you drink too much you can get fat and red faced). This doesn't seem to me so much a debate, as an attempt to claim that the public are anti-alcohol by getting them to respond to leading questions.
Alex, scotland. Tuesday, 17 June, 2008, 11:53. Report this comment.
It is a known fact that drinking too much alchol can give you a big beer belly which in life isnt the most attcractive feautre to have. Having a hangover dramatically changes your apperance as I have seen before many people become pale and look as they say 'Like death warmed up'
Niamh, Ross-Shire. Saturday, 14 June, 2008, 20:29. Report this comment.
Not many people are aware exactly how fattening alcohol is and how many calories are in some measures so long term drinking or binging will lead to weight gain. Consuming large amounts of alcohol can also affect your sleep patterns making you look and feel tierd the 'morning after' and can also result in skin outbreaks, as can the food often consumed to soak up alcohol or the next day to balance out salt and sugar cravings. Those who suffer from alcoholisim are also said to have 'leathery' looking skin and also, in some cases, slight jaundice. Therefore, cutting back or cutting out alcohol altogether will lead to an improvment in appearance and make people feel better about themselves in general.
Judith Robertrson, Glasgow. Tuesday, 3 June, 2008, 14:17. Report this comment.
Alocohol is a poison, particularly toxic if ingested in large amounts. Therefore, there is no question alcohol affects the way you look, and if large amounts are taken over a long period of time, it will affect much more than the way you look.
Hugh Purcell, Edinburgh. Monday, 2 June, 2008, 23:52. Report this comment.
I have to agree that it does. As people in the films mentioned, if you've had too much on a night out you're going to look rough the next day - and I guess Irn-Bru and bacon rolls as a hangover cure are not really going to help either...
Fraser S, Stonehaven. Monday, 2 June, 2008, 12:06. Report this comment.