A business worth 26 billion,
Advertisers promote a life of addiction.
What price human life in the face of profit,
And donations to pigs and politics?
It decimates the NHS,
Involved in nearly all road deaths.
33 thousand deaths every year,
or scarred for life by acting beer.

H, E and C equals less fatalities.
Misery hours in every bar,
But still no need for a booze czar.

Original gravity.

It's chronic and progressive,
Consumption becomes excessive.
Direct toxic effect: brain damage and early death.
Digestive disorders,
Liver cirrhosis and ulcers.
Nervous system never mends,
Horrific withdrawal: Delirium Tremens.