That’s the thing about socialized medicine. The government should put limits on what citizens are allowed to do because it impacts the bottom line.

In the US more people die per year of alcohol related diseases than by guns (1) (2). If we’re going to try to remove people’s rights to self defense, we need to remove people autonomy to purchase alcohol. The government would save billions of dollars a year on treatments if they just prohibit it.

The same goes for cigarettes, highly processed foods, and high fructose corn syrup. All of these should be banned because they lead directly to obesity, which costs trillions of dollars over a 10 year period. As the EU and even the US budget for their universal healthcare, they need to control the children, I mean citizens under their watch. The citizens show themselves unable or unwilling to control their consumption. Therefore such things should be out right banned.

1 - https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-death... 2 - https://usafacts.org/data/topics/security-safety/crime-and-j...