If you look back at "vices" of an earlier generation, it's always a bit different than the current generation.
Being a child of the 70's - you remember when the anti-smoking campaigns came out. Encouraging people not to smoke. To cut back. Eventually, to stop smoking. Smoking was bad. Bad for everyone.
The next "phase", in my mind, was AIDS. This was the next "big" epidemic to hit society. Once again, pulling from the memory banks here. Of course, AIDS wasn't viewed as a choice. Actually, it probably was - it was viewed as punishment for wild behavior. The big anti-sex campaign in life.
We are now at alcohol. This article came out this week. Maybe it's the people I hang out with. Maybe it is society. Everything does revolve around alcohol.
Oh, there is a wine tasting on Thursday night.
There is an opening of an event next Wednesday - there will be free beer and sangria.
The number one commercial at Super Bowl? Budweiser
We put on the end of the year hockey banquet for the high school kids, I didn't have alcohol served. The event was two hours long.
You would have thought I had committed a federal crime by not allowing adults to buy alcohol.
Is this what is was like with cigarettes?
Of course, now in Colorado, marijuana is legal. That was illegal.
Everything is cyclical.
Once upon a time, we outlawed alcohol. Are we back?
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