The news fell like a bomb this week: even moderate alcohol consumption is bad for your health. The only safe threshold is zero. The danger begins with the first drink.
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Does that mean the death warrant of Broue, who has been playing in Quebec since 1979? What will happen to Pointu, Verrue, Bob, Travolta? The play takes place at a time when women were forbidden in taverns. Is alcohol now going to be banned in bars?
Does at Everybody talks regarding itGuy A. is going to serve sparkling Sprite to his guests who don’t think they’re a 7Up flat?
Are we going to witness the end of alcohol on stage, on the small and big screen?
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There are countless shows where alcohol, the only publicly acceptable drug, serves as a “social lubricant” to loosen the tongues of the guests.
To There are people at mass, at Télé-Québec, we love the idea of serving (mass) wine to guests so much that we launched the YAMM cuvée: “A refined wine that provokes confessions! Must say that when your show is hosted by Christian “little glass of vino” Bégin, you do not serve lemonade to your guests.
To Everybody talks regarding it, Guy A. Lepage asks Diane Piotte, the stage manager, every Sunday: “What are we drinking this week? Are we now going to present a disclaimer, like what appears in fine print in car advertisements “This video is professionally produced, do not reproduce at home”?
To Ends the week well, every Friday on TVA, we end the show with the preparation of a cocktail. To respect the new recommendations, will Julie Bélanger convert to mocktails, Virgin Mojitos or Shirley Temple?
We removed the cigarette from the beak of Lucky Luke, the most famous cowboy in comics, to replace it with a blade of grass. Are we going to do the same thing in our films? Are we going to make the glass of burgundy that Rémy Girard, dying of cancer, held in his hands in the last images of the film disappear? Barbarian invasions by Denys Arcand?
Misery, it was the only pleasure that remained to him in life!
HAVE A GLASS OF BEER, MY KITTY
Don’t get me wrong: I’m the first to advocate moderation. Over the past year, I have lost 30 pounds by limiting my alcohol consumption to the bare minimum, an occasional drink with friends.
I also appreciate that Éduc’alcool’s new message is geared more towards empowerment than guilt.
But I do not forget that since November 2021, it is forbidden to smoke on stage in Quebec. (Insert a little gnan gnan tone here): “It’s very naughty to smoke on stage, even fake cigarettes, because you send a bad example to the innocent public who don’t know the difference between fact and fiction. »
Will soon the little priests of Public Health be interrupting a performance of Broue with the new cast (Martin Drainville, Benoît Brière and Luc Guérin) to replace the glasses of beer at the Chez Willy tavern with containers of soy milk?
