Russell M. Nelson Quotes
There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation's traffic deaths.
Nelson, Russell M. "Addiction or Freedom." Ensign, Nov. 1988, p. 7. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1988.
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Ever since Smith made this statement, Western societies have argued the issue of causality. Contemporary thinking is that the availability of alcohol outlets are both a cause and an effect of heavy and dangerous drinking. Most state alcohol authorities however do regulate the number of outlets and have not accepted Smith’s point.
The graphic for this quote is the original illustration from the article. German WWII propaganda characterized Churchill as a hugly overweight, ugly, drunk. Churchill was a relatively heavy drinker of alcohol.
Despite the known link to crime, and the fact that alcohol kills many times more Americans that do illicit drugs, Mr. Bennett and most of his successors did not target drinking in their various war on drug efforts despite the fact that alcohol is a much more dangerous and addicting drug than any of the illicit drugs. In the George W, Bush administration, health authorities in the government were ordered not to tell the public that alcohol was a drug despite the fact that all the Surgeon Generals and medical science has explained that it is not only a dangerous drug, but is a drug that induces violence more so than any other drug. The alcohol lobby did not want the public to associate the alcohol industry with the evils that drug dealers produce, so they used their political clout with the Bush administration for whom the industry provided large political contributions as well as conservative political consultants.
Russell Marion Nelson Sr. is an American religious leader and former surgeon who is the 17th and current president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Nelson was a member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for nearly 34 years, and was the quorum president from 2015 to 2018. As church president, Nelson is accepted by the church as a prophet, seer, and revelator.
