Drugs and Their Ill Effect on People

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Essay 2: Final Portfolio Drugs and Their Ill Effect on People 'The Wet Drug' by Pete Hamil and 'The Partying Habit That Can Put You in Danger' by Michele Bender, along with 'The Crack and the Box' which is also by Pete Hamil are essays that were written to inform readers of how drugs, like alcohol, can be a huge negative impact on someones life if abused, misused and/or irresponsibly consumed. The reading below will entail the essay that best explained how substances such as alcohol, 'The Wet Drug', can negatively impact someone's life if used irresponsibly or incorrectly. In first paragraph of 'The Wet Drug', Hamil infers that he actually does not want to give up drinking because of the religious converts; he's simply changed his view about drinking because he had came across many cases of ruined marriages, brutality, destroyed careers, violations, car accidents and many more unfortunate events which are caused by alcohol. Hamil shows his friends' experience, violation episodes, car accidients and studies which indicate that alcohol is a factor in those cases, with this he intended to show that alcohol is not only a factor in car accidents, but also for homocides, fires, robberies, spousal and child abuse. Hamil refers liquor as 'wet drug' because liquor is certified as an drug which is in liquid form, pretty self-explanatory. In the ninth paragraph, Hamil implies that he is against banning liquor as a whole but wants the media to ban the advertisements of alcohol to counter the ills of drinking. He states that "if cigarette advertising could be banned from TV, so should commercials for the drug called alcohol. Cigarette smokers, after all, usually kill themselves with their habit; drunks get behind the wheels of their cars and kill strangers" (pg. 28). Hamil also goes on to state "...they don't know the rest of us exist and, what's more, they don't care",

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