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/^t/No form of illiteracy is so widespread as ignorance about the dangers of alcoholic abuse. This lack of a basic understanding of its harmful impact on the human condition is costly beyond calculation. Each year the unrestrained use of alcohol is making psychological cripples and chronic sufferers out of millions of people all over the world. Statistical evidence demonstrates that alcohol disables more human beings than cancer and afflicts in different ways almost every second family. Equally distressing is the fact that despite occasional anti-drinking campaigns carried out in the mass-media, the consumption of alcohol shows no sign of abaiting. The question is: What are the dangers of alcohol on our lives? Why should we stop drinking?