Take not upon thyself to drink a jug of beer. Thou speakest, and an unintelligible utterance issueth from thy mouth. If thou fallest down and thy limbs break, there is none to hold out a hand to thee. Thy companions in drink stand up and say: "Away with this sot." And thou art like a little child.

The use of alcohol is thought to have been first present among European culture and was later introduced to America during the years of colonization. Americans soon found drinking to be a "pleasant custom" and often centered their lives around alcohol; it became part of " the social fabric of colonial America." In the past, people did not know what 'alcoholism' was; therefore, they would go on abusing alcohol without giving it much thought. This abuse of drinking resulted in pro

From the late seventies to the nineties, hundreds of laws have been passed in order to conform to smokers' rights as well to those of non-smokers. An organization by the name of the Environmental Protection Agency, in 1993, studied and proved that second-hand smoke is a toxic substance concluding that it on average kills three thousand people per year due to lung cancer. The tobacco industry subsequently battled their claims, yet were not triumphant in doing so. The discovery that cigarette smoke, otherwise known as "ETS" is very hazardous to the health, was soon followed by laws and regulations that protect people from being inflicted by cigarette smoke which created the non- smoking policy in most public places.

steer people away from drinking. The government is not the only organization that has made efforts to regulate drinking. For years, even decades, numerous campaigns against alcoholism, have failed. The 1980's was evidently a decade that campaigned and advocated against illegal drugs. In 1988, for example, Congress passed a resolution that proposed an alternative to achieve the goal of a "drug-free America by 1995." A new policy known as the "harm reduction" policy was devised and spread. Instead of taking a tough stance on punishment of illegal drug users, it focuses on preventing crime and calls for protection of public health, for safety, and for human right. This policy is one of common sense that is hoped to succeed in making matters better by taking a logical advance to this issue.

Like alcohol, smoking has been a prevalent issue through time. When President Kennedy came into office, he faced a major problem: the American people did not regard cigarettes as an important problem. By the 1960's the truth about smoking was discovered and announced by the Surgeon General: lung cancer could be a result of cigarette smoking. In the year 1966, cigarette companies were required to warn smokers of the possible dangers of cigarette smoking by putting a stamp on all cigarette boxes. In the late 60s, further studies found that smoking not only caused lung cancer, but could possibly result in heart disease, respiratory diseases (emphysema), and other forms of cancer. Public concerns regarding the environmental and health issues surrounding cigarette smoking, increased in the 70s. The promotion of cigarettes by means of the media was prohibited by 1971. Additionally, people began promoting non-smokers' right and lobbying to protest pollution caused by the carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke.

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