Research Question: Should alcohol be banned? Thesis: Alcohol might give you that extra thrill or temporarily free you from your circumstances, but the risk that comes with alcohol is not worth losing your life or someone else's. Alcohol destroys lives all over the world and the last thing we need is to be defeated by a "man-made" object instead of growing up to make things better. Effects of alcohol on the body | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). US National Library of Medicine Available at: https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/alcohols-effects-body. (Accessed: November 22, 2016) According to an article from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol can affect large parts of the body. Alcohol interferes with the brain's communication and functioning. Drinking too much or for too long can cause strain on the heart resulting in strokes, arrhythmias and hypertension. The liver can be affected by inflammation including fibrosis and alcoholic hepatitis. Drinking alcohol weakens the immune system. Alcohol is a slow, legal way to kill humans. Fahy, C. 'I had my first drink at age two': Nick Carter recounts the downward spiral to addiction to alcohol, cocaine and prescription drugs. Mail Online (2013). Available at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2429986/Nick-Carter-opens-addictions-new-autobiography.html. (Accessed: November 22, 2016) In his new autobiography, the Backstreet Boys singer talks about his parents' addiction to alcohol which he says led to his addiction first to drinking and then to drugs including cocaine, ecstasy and painkillers by prescription. “My life has plummeted to an all-time low,” he says. "We'd down beer and down shit... in the middle of a sheet of paper... actually when you drink that drink most of the time people can't get enough of it. Salesmen, S. The Sobering Truth: The Journey of a Man from Failure to Faith. Barnes & Noble Available at: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/sobering-truth-steven-sellers/1102188515/2674522332055?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace%2BShopping%2BBooks_00000000&2sid= Google_&sourceId. (Accessed: 22 November 2016)This eBook by Steven Sellers...the Addict. Sums up his addiction to alcohol and its escalation to an average of two fifths of vodka a day then into treatment, his thirst for alcohol led him to leave behind his great career, a 19-year marriage and two young daughters… and his soul where alcohol is a beast that will take over your life and turn your family into strangers if you let it..