1000+ Current Affairs Group Discussion Topics with Answers Pdf

Yes, it is:

Drinking is an addiction of which cannot be easily given up. It is seen that young boys take to drinking through entanglement or inducements of friends who regard it as a status symbol and a sign of being advanced and modern.

Alcohol is not suited to a hot country like India since it is a drink of the cold countries. Moreover it causes several diseases like rheumatism, hypertension, liver psoasiasis etc.

Wine, wealth and women are the root cause of quarrels in the world. In the case of alcohol or wine, women do accompany it, but wealth keeps away from drunkard. Hence it is better to prohibit consumption of liquor, the mother of evils in the world.

The evils of drinking are well known. It is not only expensive but also deteriorating for the mind and body of the habitual drunkard.

The argument that liquor industry provides employment is specious, for jobs for a few means destruction of millions of families.

Consumption of alcohol is not only an evil by itself as moralist suggest but also a cause of other adverse repercussions; it weakens the intellectual power of drunkards and they don’t hesitate to commit rapes, thefts, murders under its influence.

No it is not:

A democratic country like India should not deprive its citizens of their freedom of action in the name of prohibition. Unless and until a drunkard harms the society in the way, he should not touched or harassed.

Some of the states and areas like Jammu and Kashmir, Laddakh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal need alcohol due to their cold climate in winter.

Drinking alcohol is not an unmitigated evil. It made several achievements in science, literature and technology possible.

Madam Curie, the discover of radium, and Vishwamitra, India’s first engineer, started their work with a good drink.m

 Wine has been widely used in India since ancient times and has been called Sura(the drink of Sur or Gods).

Soldiers need it to get extra energy and courage in inhospitable terrain and during warfare.

Prohibition leads to underground activities of boot legging and the illicit brewing of liquor.

In USA and our Mumbai we have seen only criminal benefitting from the prohibition law.

Government receives a big amount as tax from liquor industry and if it prohibited, it will cause a good loss of revenue to the state.

Most of those states which had enforced prohibition have again allowed drinking to make good their loss on revenue account.