Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
Shouldn't you address the claimed health risks?

It doesn't have anything to do with diet (poor straw man).
Your diet is what you eat and drink. So I do think it relates.

The claim is that it leads to alcohol poisoning by masking the effects so that people can't judge how intoxicated they are.
It's easy to have an idea of how drunk you are by keeping track of how much you drink. What, we can't count and have to determine our sobriety using self-applied intoxication tests?

The government has no place deciding how we should be drinking. Just because its possible to overindulge is no excuse for a nationwide ban.

Q11. What's the difference between a drink that combines alcohol and cola and a beverage that contains alcohol and caffeine?

A11. Cola is a carbonated beverage made up of many ingredients, including caffeine.The addition of caffeine to cola-type beverages up to certain levels is GRAS. Consumers may themselves choose to add cola to alcoholic beverages according to their preferences. The beverages that are the subject of FDA's request for information are characterized by the intentional addition of caffeine to alcoholic beverages by the manufacturer.
And consumers can't choose whether or not to buy beverages that contain alcohol and caffeine like they choose to mix drinks themselves? There is no real difference, a fact that 'answer' neatly ignores.

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