The nearest water cooler was a 10-minute walk away, and workers say the strict foreman didn't allow them a long enough break to stop and get a drink.

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We understand that life is stressful, that a lot of people are in pain, that they want the pain to stop and they want to feel good even for a moment, so they drink and spend and gamble and eat and smoke and it can cause enormous problems even as it relaxes them or allows them to get through one more day, or night.

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Until now, most British pubs have been forced to stop serving alcohol at 11pm, forcing revellers to move on to the sort of venues where drink is expensive and loud music and pills are to be found.

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He said if he thought the labelling was going to encourage children to drink his ale and lager he would stop selling it immediately.

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However, such logic will not stop some from continuing to argue that if an American wants to drink paint and suffer the consequences, such behavior is both their prerogative and their right in a free country.

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