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March 21, 2001 -- The National Campaign to Enhance Alcohol Consumption urges us to be thinking about drinking
The National Campaign to Enhance Alcohol Consumption (NCEAC) is nothing if not politically incorrect. Author Bruce Clifton (Exercise With Alcohol: The Ultimate Fitness Guide for Today's American Drinker, Barricade Books, NY, NY) offers a variety of serious points about the human practice of drinking alcohol. Rather than blindly following the current trends toward excoriating alcohol as the root of all evil, Clifton urges us to look into the historical and cultural significance of humanity's love affair with the beverage that is called both "the good creature of God" and "Demon Rum".
One point of Clifton's crusade is to recover the inviting setting of the traditional tavern. He quotes Ray Oldenburg's book, The Great Good Place, "... a place where people can gather, put aside the concerns of work and home... and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation."
The NCEAC urges drinkers to do whatever they can to make American taverns and bars more numerous, accessible and conducive to lively and convivial sociability.
For more information about NCEAC go to http://www.enhancealcohol.com/
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