75% of children possessing stunted growth had parents who...

75% of children possessing stunted growth 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 on the morals Attachment towards the family and the love for the wife and children diminishes so much in an alcoholic person that it has been repeatedly observed that fathers have killed their children with their own hands.

a) The social harms of alcohol Statistics compiled by The Legal Medical Institute of the city of Neon in 1961 of social crimes reveal that alcoholics were involved in 50% of all homicide cases, 77.8% of violence and physical abuses, 88.5% of thefts, and 88.8% of sexual offences. These figures reveal that an overwhelming majority of crimes and offences are perpetrated under the influence of alcohol.

b) The economic harms of alcoholic drinks A celebrated psychiatrist says: Unfortunately, the governments only take into consideration the monetary and tax benefits derived from alcohol but fail to consider the enormous funds spent to rectify its evils.

If the governments were to take into account the increased psychological sicknesses in the society, the losses of a decadent society, the waste of precious time, the driving accidents resulting from intoxication, the corruption of generations, the laziness, idleness and nonchalance, the cultural backwardness, the troubles faced by the police, the reformatories for the guardianship of alcoholic children and the hospitals for them, the judicial set up to look into crimes committed by the alcoholics and the prisons to house the offenders, and other losses that stem from the consumption of alcohol, collectively, they would realize that the income derived from the taxes imposed on alcoholic drinks is nothing compared to the above-mentioned losses.

Besides, the deplorable consequences of alcohol consumption cannot be gauged in terms of just money, for the death of near ones, breaking up of families, lost ambitions and loss of intellect can never be compared to money. In summary, the harms of alcohol are so numerous that according to one scholar, if the governments guarantee to close down fifty per cent of the public houses, it can be guaranteed that we would not be in need of fifty per cent of the hospitals and asylums.