Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), issued a notification March 19, 2018, asking alcohol manufacturers to put labels on the bottles with the warning:
Consumption of alcohol is injurious to health
FSSAI
If you are wondering why FSSAI would give that directive, it is because alcohol is extremely harmful to our body.
Harmful Effects of Alcohol
Do you know how many diseases are caused by alcohol?
200 diseases!
WHO (World Health Organization) says that consumption of alcohol causes more than 200 diseases, injuries and other health conditions.
See: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/alcohol
Alcohol increases crimes
Alcohol plays a large role in criminal activities and violence. Alcohol is found out to be a major contributor to the following crimes:
1. Murder
2. Rape
3. Robbery
4. Violence
5. Domestic Violence
6. Child Abuse
7. Suicide
Apart from the crimes, alcohol also is a major cause for most of the road accidents.
See: https://www.alcoholrehabguide.org/alcohol/crimes/
Note: To read more about how alcohol triggers rape, read the section “Primary triggers for Rape”.
What Alcohol Does to Your Body?
Conclusion
First you take a drink , then the drink takes the drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Learn to say NO to drinks! What starts as casual social drinking will end up becoming an addiction!