It is best if one could
altogether abstain from smoking and drinking. It needs understanding and
determination to do so. However, if one is given the option to give up
either smoking or drinking, he must invariably opt to give up drinking
because it causes spiritual, social and personal harm.One can smoke a
cigarette inside a room and could avoid contact with another. But,
consumption of alcohol, whether in public or private, destroys man, his
family and society.
It costs a tremendous amount in terms of loss of family and social
life, and costs related to the police, hospitals, domestic health and
peace, and children’s education. Therefore, instead of no smoking boards
there should be ‘no drinking’ boards. Unlike drinking, smoking is no
evil to society or home.
E. M. G. Edirisinghe
Dehiwala
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