Word: alcoholic
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...Like Britain, Thailand has embarked upon a rocky legislative road, hoping that new laws will fix an old problem. While Brits debated minimum pricing, Thais were arguing the merits of prohibiting alcohol sales during Songkran, or Thai New Year, which runs April 13-15 and is the country's most important annual holiday. This is a bit like Sir Liam banning booze at Christmas. Better known among tourists as the Water Festival, Songkran is famous for mass water-pistol fights and - with millions of Thais visiting their families - insanely busy highways. During last year's festival, 360 people died...
...Thailand has an increasingly vocal antialcohol movement. Last November Thai Beverage PLC, the country's largest producer of alcoholic drinks, indefinitely postponed its stock listing after Buddhist monks led a blockade of the Stock Exchange of Thailand building in Bangkok. Thais in favor of prohibition also cheered the passing of an alcohol-control act that took effect in February last year. It raised the legal drinking age from 18 to 20, banned alcohol-related advertising, and - at a time when Britain was liberalizing its licensing laws to allow for round-the-clock drinking - restricted the sale of alcohol to only...
...Britain's present - twentysomethings with end-stage liver disease, "binge black spots," city centers carpeted with vomit - also Thailand's future? It doesn't have to be. Thailand's per capita alcohol consumption is still half that of Britain's, according to the most recent figures from the World Health Organization. But Thailand could learn at least two lessons from Britain's battle with the bottle...
...Second, think before you legislate. Curbing alcohol abuse among young people, for example, has as much (if not more) to do with parenting as with policing. If Britain has any message for Thailand, it is this: to create a nation of responsible drinkers, there's no magic elixir...
...hours a hotel suite. In the Kirkland House Drama Society’s production of Suites—based on a collection of Neil Simon plays—four sets of characters love, fight, and forgive in four different storylines that all take place in a hotel suite. Alcohol flows, expletives fly, and arguments rage—check out all the drama (and a surprise cross-dressing guest star) after the jump...