Editor,
I drink no booze! Booze has devastated the lives of many of my dear friends. Booze causes car crashes, paralyzing and killing thousands, including my niece, Rachel. Booze causes awful family fights, ruined romances, horrible holiday memories. I do not want to make it easier for me to say or do things I later terribly regret. Men wake up in jail not remembering stabbing their wife or buddy while drunk the night before.
Many lean, attractive bodies will not stay lean and attractive if they keep on boozing and eating junk food. Booze lowers immunity to disease. Booze harms the whole body — heart, blood vessels, kidneys, liver, stomach, brain, nerves — and booze increases the risk of catching STDs from infected partners.
Both booze and cigarettes lower the sex hormone, testosterone, causing men to have sex-related problems. Which booze or cigarettes ads tell us that? Why would sex-loving persons consume something that lowers our sex hormone?
If the most good-looking man in town has to drink booze to drown his shame and guilt in order to make love with me, my answer is, “No, thanks.”
Many smart, hard-working people start out as social drinkers and end up sick, lonely alcoholics dying young.
I urge all musicians: stop singing words in English and Spanish, glamorizing booze! Poison words glamorizing booze, jealousy, “cheating,” contaminate many beautiful, heart-touching melodies!
Community leaders and parents: set a public example. Live sober — drink no booze!
Imagine if all the money USA-ans spend on booze went instead to help homeless children worldwide. Imagine if all the land used to grow grapes and grain to make booze was used instead to grow healthy food for hungry people.
I enjoy deep conversations, warmly hugging men and women friends, dancing up a storm and I drink no booze! Live passionately with no booze poisoning our minds and bodies!
I strongly oppose the sale of booze in UNM’s Student Union Building.
Don Schrader
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