An emerging issue across the United States is the drink call Four Loco and the effects it has on drinkers. The drink is a larger size can that contains tons of caffeine and is equivalent to five beers. All of this in one can for around three dollars somehow leads to people drinking way too much and getting sick. The debate has already to begun on the dangerous drink and has been banned in some areas. The tools of government have already been put in use. Some towns have made regulations to ban the sale of these drinks. Other places have just begun by notifying people of the dangers of the drink. Either way the government has already stepped in to regulate the problem.
-Will Kalish
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/14/maryland.four.loko/index.html
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I believe that the drink is definitely a huge risk to the health and safety of students who drink this. An energy drink and alchohol mixed sounds like it could cause a heart attack because the large amount of caffeine would speed up the heart rate while the alcohol would slow down the heart rate. I think that these products should immediately be removed from the shelves because of the dangerous risks and harms they pose to those who choose to drink these alcoholic beverages. A public problem that is posed is the disadvantage that pulling this product from the market would cause to the alcohol industry, but since it is a relatively new product it should not cause too much harm to the industry. The health and safety of consumers is a far more important issue.
ReplyDeleteThe government has stepped in and this would be an example of the direct government tool, but have they gone too far? The drink has already been banned in some places. Smoking is bad for you, and gets people sick, why is the sale of cigarettes not being banned? I think that as long as the can comes with a fair and severe warning written somewhere on it that the government has then justly intervened with the problem. I'm not saying that this is correct, but this is the way that they have previously handled situations such as these, cigarettes being the most well known example. But then this comes down to the economical issue that cigarettes generate a much larger market than the fourloko drink does and therefore government cannot afford to take the same measures with cigarettes as they are with this.
ReplyDelete-Jordan Goodman