Essay: - 'Alcohol and Young Generation’
Alcohol is an intoxicating liquid its chemical name is Ethanol or Ethyl Alcohol. This is used for drinking by human. It is used as a “Social Drink” in many high societies around the globe. The calorific value of Alcohol is very high hence it is capable of giving an immediate lift to the tired soldiers if taken in small quantity. Therefore it is used by personnel in forces. Alcohol if consumed in large quantity makes one unconscious too. Alcohol is the worst abuse.
Everything has its own aches and pains and alcohol is no exception to it. Rather alcohol consumption is highly injurious to the health is a proven fact best known globally. Alcohol is a habit forming drug and young generation tend to consume it as a fashion and soon become alcoholic badly addicted to it. Habit of alcohol is a very costly monetarily too.
When alcoholics can’t afford to drink good quality of alcohol, they turn to cheap illicit brew. This can cause grave health problems and can be fatal too. I know of a couple of cases wherein firstly Eighty persons blinded soon after alcohol consumption and secondly One family with relatives and their friends, nearly twelve people died after consuming alcohol. They drank was Methyl Alcohol stolen from a stationary rail tanker in the yard.
Habitual drinking spoils married life of numerous young couples and ruins career of their children too. Drinking causes deadly diseases like heart failure and Cirrhosis of the liver. Alcohol weakens brain cells, memory power, heart, and sexual potency and drive.
Majority of young generation drink because they have some pending problems. Drinking does not solve any problem but simply postpones it. This results into bigger back log of unsolved problems. Young generation in the process of imitating romantic films, drink heavily and take their girlfriend on date. They go on long drives in intoxicated condition and crash their car. Many truck and bus accidents are seen on highways (free-ways) due to drunken driving thus causing loss of men, material and money.
Drunk driving is an extremely serious problem numerous losses of the human life and public property are encountered on account of drunk driving all over. The most tragic death of Princess Diana of Paris was also caused by driver Paul, who lost control of the car at high speed while he was drunk.
In nutshell Alcohol is very highly injurious to health. Hence one must refrain from drinking and enjoy the wealth of good health. After-all young generation is the nation builder and future of the nation.
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