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| Tirkha |
Posted
on 26-Aug-01 09:24 AM
Nepal has just announced that the drinking age will be set at 24. Sales of bottled liquor will be limited to between 2 and 6 pm. No sales at all on the first 2 days of the month, and no sales on the last 2 saturdays of each month. This will have the effect of having more people turning to drink. More will be consuming extra alcohol during mid month. The price of bottled liquor wll rise and there will be an increase in home brew. It will not affect the activity so common in the night clubs nor on the increased incidence of alcoholism.
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| Grena |
Posted
on 26-Aug-01 11:09 AM
Correct.
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| GP |
Posted
on 27-Aug-01 02:57 AM
Nepali Comrades are idiots. They want the age for voting right to
reduce to 16, because they know the young hot blooded peoples
in front of blurred future and its uncertainities have more chances to
join and believe cheap communist propaganda, but, the same
same group of communist propagondoists think that the youngs have
to be 24 to decide whether alcohol is good or bad to them.
This is just a cheap popularity, in a disorganized country, with
less responsible government and political parties who earned
huge money from back doors.
GP
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| oli |
Posted
on 27-Aug-01 07:34 AM
There should be a regulation on liquor, but not the type Nepali government is trying to do. Ditribution of liquor between 2 to 6 PM and setting the age at 24 is simply ridiculous. First of all, who will check the age? Distribution at a certain time frame will drive consumers to line up at liquor stores and stock liquor at home like kerosene or sugar. If there is a decline in supply, the brewery industry will cut off jobs. That will hurt the sugarcane farmers. Has anyone thought of this? The same guy who used to beat his wife (after he drank liquor) will start beating his family from frustration of loss of job at the sugarcane processing factory. The same government worker who used to work at least till 5 PM will sneak out of office at 2 PM to wait in queue in a liquor store. On the other hand, black market will rise. This regulation will not control the social problem of drinking, it will hurt the already declining economy. If drinking is looked at as a social problem, it has been a social problem since the ancient times. Every country in the world still suffers from it. But regulating drinking like in Nepal will not solve this problem.
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| aakas |
Posted
on 27-Aug-01 11:42 AM
I don’t totally agree that Nepali Comrades are idiots. I agree that their furious activity burning down the plant is stupid, very stupid. Nepal is aware of this huge problem (domestic violence, wife battery) by uncontrollable liquor. Most of you have the experience of drinking at the early ages (Was that good?) I don’t think so. What the hell did the government do about it? Well, these Nepali Comrades activity draw the attention of these “ghusiya” government to take some actions. Let's hope that they come up with good regulations to solve these types of issues which satisfy all and keep it.
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 27-Aug-01 12:07 PM
When I see these radical left students, smashing factories and closing shops, I
wonder what they would do if they ever get to the power of Nepal.
A poem from Lalitya (Lekh Nath Paudel) would be a fitting expression, though:
Saanai Dekhi Chhucho Hunchha Dushta Maanisha ko mati
Ghochane Jangali Kaadaa Saanaimaa Nai Tikhaa Kati.
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