Poland is a planet of monkeys

Today a topic that affects many millions of Poles. The only species of monkey living in Poland is the so-called monkey. We take it for a walk, to work, on a bicycle, to the beach. Recently, there have been ideas to drive these "monkeys" out of their natural habitats, namely neighborhood stores and gas stations. Doctor, what's wrong with "monkeys"?

There's a lot wrong with monkeys. This is indeed the most famous creature until 1 p.m. We buy these creatures in neighborhood stores on the way to work - note, by car often - 3 million pieces. 700-800 thousand people in Poland are not sober. How many families suffer because of this? How many of these people are sick, addicted? It's really we doctors who see every day in our offices what kind of damage, what kind of drama and social impact this is. There are more liquor stores in Warsaw than in all of Norway, right? These examples you know, they are journalistic, but they tell how schizophrenic the state behaves towards this problem. Because on the one hand it profits from excise taxes and various other taxes on alcohol, tobacco, and on the other hand it has to pay for the treatment of these people.

For treating strokes, heart attacks.

For treating strokes, heart attacks, which are more likely to occur in such people, but also, of course, the alcohol disease itself.

Yes, there has been a lot of buzz recently about the so-called alcohol pension....

Very interesting, I haven't heard the acct, but it's puzzling....

So let's skip it with a deep silence, because it will turn out that millions of Poles will start applying for this pension.

It is good that I do not know how it turns out. Ladies and gentlemen, we should decide on something, the state should decide on something. Maybe we shouldn't say it, but alcohol will be there anyway, and it will stay with us. It is an invention of the people for the people, but it is an idea that is for reasonable people in reasonable proportions. Those proportions are what it's all about, after all.

Well, that's where the proportions are small.

Yes, these are small proportions. These monkeys are a bit like e-cigarettes: it looks nice, it probably has some cool flavor, some fruity flavor, in general it's so laid back, it's all packaged like that. The problem of monkeys is the problem of a worker going to a construction site, who nobody controls, it's the problem of an office worker who drinks three monkeys in the underground garage, when he has to drive in, on the 38th floor. No one controls this, no one thinks about it. The price of alcohol is a price that is absolutely not prohibitive, everyone can afford it, young people have very easy access to alcohol. I see the effects of this. Every day the Polish countryside drinks, the Polish city drinks. Drama.

So what do we do with the monkeys?

Monkeys should not accompany us. We throw them out. The monkey zoo should be somewhere far away and very difficult to access. Of course there is a revolt. What do you mean a gas station can't buy one? What do you mean after 10 pm you can't buy? There will be a revolt, as with everything always and with every ban. Of course, the most important thing would be education, but education alone in my opinion will not help. I am also in favor of introducing some administrative restrictions. The monkey does not accompany us, the monkey is far away, let's watch monkeys only in Praga in the Warsaw zoo.

Dear all, I don't know what opinion environmentalists have about Polish monkeys, but we know what opinion doctors have. Thank you for the interview

One more thing I'll say is that environmentalists, as they look at these monkeys that lie on lawns and are one of the most common pollutants around housing estates, are also sounding the alarm and are also worried that in this way we pollute this environment first of all from the inside, drinking such a quantity, but also around us.