Kill yourself

I was reading the back of a wine bottle today and wondered at how they are so politically correct that they don't advertise their product but play down its health defects. They tell you that if you are a woman you should drink only two to three glasses a day of this wine in the bottle and that if you are a man you should drink only three to four glasses a day. Otherwise, you get the impression, that it's going to kill you. The same sort of warning is written on the fronts of cigarette packets: "Smoking can seriously damage your health."
So, even the stuff they sell us is, according to the people who sell it, bad for you. Where's their morals? How can they be allowed to sell such dangerous stuff in a modern society which prides itself on its ethical values? Well, like the people who said about the Iraq war, "it's all about oil" (though they were wrong) this is all about making money and raising tax. An effort is made by governments to "make people healthy" so they promote these ludicrous methods of telling us that "wine is bad for you" and "smoking can kill you" so that they can feel good about things but at the same time they can sweep up a sackful lot of taxes in the process.
Of course there's always people who smoke a lot and will always do so who say something like "my father smoked all his life and never had an illness and lived to ninety two" and there are always people who say that drink is good for you and the more the better. At least they're direct and honest, But the government and, more surprisingly, the manufacturers will say one thing on the packet or bottle and take your money when you don't take their advice. I call that hypocricy which, according to Christ, was one the greatest of sins.
I was amused to read that Gerard Depardius was caught urinating on a plane since he had consumed a large quantity of wine (possibly from his own vineyard) and pleased to hear that he usually drinks about five bottles a day. Henry Whats-his-name, the cricket commentator, says he drinks at least two bottles per day and has always done so. Good for them I say because I too believe that three or four glasses oper day is far too little. Dr James Le Fanu in his book "How to live to Ninety" writes about the government limits : "there is no serious scientific basis for these recommendations which over the years have always been revised downwards. There seems little doubt that people can double this intake with no obvious untoward effect."
About smoking I'm not with the man whose father died at ninety two. Though I once smoked myself, I believe it's very bad for you. End of sermon.