Shri TBT,
I read all your posts and I agree with all in Toto.
YES, drinking alcohol is fun and so is smoking cigarettes and smoking weed!! Otherwise humans would not opt for it.
People who drink alcohol advice their friends not to smoke as smoking is more harmful than consuming liquor. But do all smokers accept unanimously? Smokers have their own version of justification, saying, many chain smokers have lived till 70+ years with out any major diseases and many non smokers have suffered from cardiac arrest, cancer etc and have died in much younger age. It's all in our fate and let us enjoy until we feel like enjoying smoking.
These habits can serve only a specific purpose of satisfying our sense of satisfaction for the moment and can take a different turn altogether physically and emotionally, in due course of time. It depends on each individual's sense of responsibility for the self and the people associated with him/her.
At the end of the day, individuals would realize how right were they or how wrong were they, depending on the degree of their habits and it's consequences of any sort. Any amount of suggestions and advices would hardly get across other fellow humans.
As a caring and responsible humans, parents and true friends tend to advice their near and dear one's to be away from such habits to be on a safer side.
As it is humans suffer from diseases, many of which are peculiar in nature and totally unexpected, for which they are personally not at fault due any such habits, consciously. In such a case people who are not into such habits and are responsible and caring would for sure tend to advice their near and dear one's at times, to keep off from such habits. It then depends on addicted individuals to act as how they deem fit with their own freedom of choice, rational thoughts, sense of disciplined and controlled consumption and or prioritized sense of erring by avoiding, to not to be at risk by their own self.
For the both acceptability and rejection of drinking liquor, people can show ample examples by figuring out the enjoyment of Socially Drinking Happy Folks without putting themselves and others in trouble and Self Ruining Folks, ruining themselves and effecting their near and dear one's/others due over indulgence OR being unfortunately in a wrong place - at a wrong time - in a wrong group - in a negative emotional state etc. and get into destructive activity being carried away by the influences of alcohol.
What to say? It's Kali yuga. In this atmosphere with a different life style, profession and global interactions, people tend to pick up some or other such habits, knowingly or unknowingly.
It is for each individual to evaluate and decide how he/she wants to live. I personally don't complain non drinkers and non smokers who could not resist and often tend to advice their friends, family members and near and dear one's to quit such habits.
IMHO, we should value the love and care with which our well wishers advice us for our own betterment and should value any moral messages/quotes in those lines. If we are really smart, responsible and have the sense of responsibilities for the self and towards our near and dear ones, we should keep on allowing their attempts to seed thoughts in our mind in an acceptable manner. This would for sure help us in some way and at least at certain point of time.
