We have even recently discovered that smoking tobacco during pregrancy triples the chances a male child will be involved in violent crime. We know alcohol is the drug that does more damage to society and health than any other. We tolerate it knowing that prohibition will not work. Yet we go a step further, we advertise it. We glamorise it.
People drink alcohol in the movies at every possible excuse.
Hollywood heroes flaunt cigars. We keep forgetting that movies and TV are the prime source of models of behaviour that people learn from. Doctors tell me that marijuana and opium are medically less dangerous drugs when prescribed in measured doses, yet we go to the most extreme measures to suppress them. We have a problem with promiscuity spreading the HIV virus, especially in the gay community. Environmentalists Geneticist Dr. David Suzuki over the decades has been trying to warn humanity about the damage they are doing to the planet, and the inertia those practices have.