What Is The Philosophy Behind The Prohibition Of (Consumption Of) Liquor?
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON AGE
A distinguished Western scholar avers that if there are 51 deaths amongst the youths, who are between the ages of 21 and 23, and addicted to alcoholic beverages, in contrast, there are not even 10 deaths from amongst those youths not addicted to them.
Another reputed scholar has proved that 20 year-old youths, who are anticipated to live up to the age of 50 years, do not live beyond 35 years as a result of consumption of alcohol.
According to experiments conducted by ‘life insurance’ companies, it has been established that the life-span of those addicted to alcohol is 25 – 30 percent less than that of those not addicted to it.
Another statistics reveal that the average age of those addicted to alcohol is between 35 years and 50 years, whereas the average age, when hygienic and sanitary issues are observed, is above 60 years.
THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON THE OFFSPRINGS
If a person happens to be intoxicated at the time of conception, 35 percent of the acute alcoholic effects are passed on to the child and if both - the husband and the wife - were to be inebriated, 100 percent of the acute effects are transferred to the child. In order that the effects of alcohol upon children are better comprehended, we seek to present some statistics here:
Of the children having been born prematurely, 45% of them had fathers and mothers, both of whom were alcoholics, 31% had mothers who were alcoholics and 17% had fathers who were alcoholic.
6% of the infants, who lack the ability to live on after birth, had alcoholic fathers while 45% of them had alcoholic mothers.
75% of the children possessing a short build had parents who were addicted to alcohol while 45% of them had mothers who were addicted to it.
Amongst the children who suffered from a lack of sufficient intellectual and mental abilities, 75% of them had alcoholic mothers while 75% of them had alcoholic fathers.
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON THE MORALS
The attachment towards the family and the love for the wife and children diminishes in an alcoholic person such that it has been repeatedly observed that fathers have killed their children with their own hands.
THE SOCIAL HARMS OF ALCOHOL
Statistics compiled by The Legal Medical Institute of the city of Neon in 1961 of social crimes reveals that alcoholics were involved in 50 percent of all of homicide cases,
77.8 percent of violence and physical abuses,
88.5 percent of thefts,
and 88.8 percent of sexual offences.
These figures reveal that an overwhelming majority of crimes and offences are perpetrated under the influence of alcohol.
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