Good Public Speaking Speech

You are standing in a modern bar music is playing in the background people are laughing and talking you are sitting at the bar with your friends. The expensively dressed waiter hands you a whisky your friends laugh as you down the whiskey. The popularity, the wealth, the fun. Welcome to the dream of Alcohol. They are all images put out by the advertising companies that the brewers of all these alcohols pay.

It’s only natural that children want this popularity fame money etc and so when they see an advert showing this promise of success they jump at the chance. It has been found that 13-16 year olds are the most susceptible to this this form of false marketing aimed specifically at children. In a society that encourages us to escape pain rather than face it alcohol is the favourite anaesthetic Even for grown men and woman, this lie is enticing; the reality is far from this lie.

This very weekend at 11 O’clock in every pub in England the last remaining drunkards who have been drinking themselves to an early grave all week will be ejected out in to the street to attack innocent by-standers police men and each other. Every Saturday the same scene is replayed Vomit, Ear splitting music, drunk driving, grievous, bodily, harm, drugs, rape, stabbing and murder. Welcome to the nightmare of Alcohol this is the reality on the streets. A drink induced mad blur of violence and casual crime

Now lets pretend that you are a 16 year old lying in a puddle of your own vomit after consuming the equivalent of 6 units in a park last night, your friends have long since deserted you in your comatose stupor, it is 3 o’clock in the morning unknown to you your family is looking all over for you, you are liable to hypothermia or assault… the question now is, are you found and sent to your bed to sleep it off or do you stay here huddled under a park bench slipping further away the cold numbing your body until the alcohol or the elements finally pull you through deaths doorway. Unfortunately this is the reality for many children who hide in secluded areas with their friends drinking alcohol away from prying eyes or the police.

Man woman or child this is a dangerous situation that is being encouraged by the adverts of alcohol. Death rates for woman have almost doubled while diseases like cirrhosis of the liver have flourished. Alcohol has now been added to the admittedly large list of things that cause cancer but it will cause more than just cancer. Many diseases have been closely linked to alcohol but the most dangerous problem is if you first start with just a half pint what happens when you stop getting that kick out of drinking a half pint and then on to some of the weaker spirits then the stronger ones. It gets to the point where some people who started drinking a small alcohol in the park at the age of 14 now needs a regular fix of drugs by the time he’s 25. It is this chain affect of one extreme after the other that will inevitably lead to his death at the age of 30.