Occasionally it may even cause suffocation and death. The ill effects of alcohol consumption on women deserves special mention. Females are more vulnerable to alcohol-related cirrhosis than men. During pregnancy alcohol consumption has a severe detrimental effect on the foetus. Foetal-alcohol syndrome is being recognised more and more in the medical profession.
Skin diseases are also related to alcohol indulgence.
Alcoholism is a disease Medical doctors have now turned liberal towards alcohol and call alcoholism a disease rather than an addiction. All its injunctions are aimed at preserving the natural state of man. Alcohol is a deviation from this natural state, for the individuals well as for society. It degrades man to a level below that of the beasts he claims to be superior to. Hence the consumption of alcohol is prohibited in Islam.