Lucille Roybal-Allard Quotes
With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.
Roybal-Allard, Lucille. "Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act." Congressional Record, vol. 152, 14 Nov. 2006, p. H8623.
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.
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Lobbyists from industries that believe that research in an area might produce findings and results that are inimical to their business or ideology, often lobby to prohibit the research outright or reduce or eliminate the funding for that research.
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.
Explaining why he wants alcohol-ad warnings in all alcohol ads:
Lucille Elsa Roybal-Allard is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 40th congressional district, serving in Congress since 1993. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 33rd from 1993 to 2003 and as the 34th from 2003 to 2013, includes much of southern Los Angeles, as well as a number of eastern suburbs such as Downey, Bell and Bell Gardens.
