{"id":132,"date":"2008-04-28T13:21:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T17:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/04\/28\/passive-drinking-%e2%80%93-nannies-never-sleep\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T17:21:32","slug":"passive-drinking-%e2%80%93-nannies-never-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/passive-drinking-%e2%80%93-nannies-never-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Passive Drinking \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Nannies Never Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that European nannies have succeeded in using bogus claims to outlaw smoking nearly everywhere , They&#8217;re moving on to their next target: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/foreign\/brunowaterfield\/april\/passivedrinkingguilt.htm\" target=\"_blank\">passive drinking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Uber Nanny Dr. Peter Anderson claims, <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The total tangible cost of alcohol to EU society in 2003 was estimated<\/em> {pulled out of someone&#8217;s ass} <em>to be \u00e2\u201a\u00ac125bn (\u00e2\u201a\u00ac79bn-\u00e2\u201a\u00ac220bn), equivalent to 1.3 per cent GDP, and which is roughly the same value as that found recently for tobacco.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/em> Anderson was a driving force in vilification of Europe&#8217;s smokers.  His primary tool was lying about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the effects of second hand smoke<\/a>, relying, of course, on ass numbers.  <em>&#8220;The intangible costs show the value people place on pain, suffering and lost life that occurs due to the criminal, social and health harms caused by alcohol. In 2003 these were estimated<\/em> {pulled from <em>way <\/em>up my  ass}  <em>to be \u00e2\u201a\u00ac270bn, with other ways of valuing the same harms producing estimates between \u00e2\u201a\u00ac150bn and \u00e2\u201a\u00ac760bn.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Did you really think the nannies would stop at tobacco?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that European nannies have succeeded in using bogus claims to outlaw smoking nearly everywhere , They&#8217;re moving on to their next target: passive drinking. Uber Nanny Dr. Peter Anderson claims, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The total tangible cost of alcohol to EU society in 2003 was estimated {pulled out of someone&#8217;s ass} to be \u00e2\u201a\u00ac125bn (\u00e2\u201a\u00ac79bn-\u00e2\u201a\u00ac220bn), equivalent to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}