Peter Parka
Well-Known Member
He reminds me of my granddad who did just about everything possible wrong for his health and died in his 90s, then again, he was Glasweigan! 
[h=1]'Nanny state' warnings are rubbish, says man who drinks 40 pints a day[/h][h=2]A former pub landlord who regularly drank 40 pints a day has dismissed health warnings over alcohol as part of a ‘nanny state’.[/h]
Ken Chappell reckons he's in good nick after drinking up to 40 pints a day (Picture: Corin Messer)
Ken Chappell said tests ordered by a doctor concerned about his beer belly showed his liver was normal, even though he used to consume 30 times the recommended intake.
The 78-year-old has now cut down to six pints a day from his heyday in the 1980s and 1990s.
But he criticised government health officials for allegedly overstating the effects alcohol has on the body.
‘We are consistently told that two or three pints a day will kill you, maybe not today, but in the future,’ he said.
‘But I’m 78, so when is it going to be my time?’
Health groups have called for bottled lager to carry health warnings similar to those used on cigarette packets.
But Mr Chappell said it was wrong for ministers to blame society’s problems on beer.
In 60 years of drinking, he has only appeared in court in connection with the two pubs he used to run near his home in Poole, Dorset.
Mr Chappell added: ‘I didn’t drink spirits but I drank beer every day and hate the way it is being blamed for everything that is wrong with the country nowadays.
‘I just think there are too many people telling us what is healthy and what is not in today’s Britain.
‘I am living proof they are wrong about a lot of things.’
Government guidelines state men should drink no more than four units of alcohol a day, equivalent to a pint-and-a-half, while women should limit themselves to three, which is about two standard glasses of wine.
[h=1]'Nanny state' warnings are rubbish, says man who drinks 40 pints a day[/h][h=2]A former pub landlord who regularly drank 40 pints a day has dismissed health warnings over alcohol as part of a ‘nanny state’.[/h]
Ken Chappell reckons he's in good nick after drinking up to 40 pints a day (Picture: Corin Messer) Ken Chappell said tests ordered by a doctor concerned about his beer belly showed his liver was normal, even though he used to consume 30 times the recommended intake.
The 78-year-old has now cut down to six pints a day from his heyday in the 1980s and 1990s.
But he criticised government health officials for allegedly overstating the effects alcohol has on the body.
‘We are consistently told that two or three pints a day will kill you, maybe not today, but in the future,’ he said.
‘But I’m 78, so when is it going to be my time?’
Health groups have called for bottled lager to carry health warnings similar to those used on cigarette packets.
But Mr Chappell said it was wrong for ministers to blame society’s problems on beer.
In 60 years of drinking, he has only appeared in court in connection with the two pubs he used to run near his home in Poole, Dorset.
Mr Chappell added: ‘I didn’t drink spirits but I drank beer every day and hate the way it is being blamed for everything that is wrong with the country nowadays.
‘I just think there are too many people telling us what is healthy and what is not in today’s Britain.
‘I am living proof they are wrong about a lot of things.’
Government guidelines state men should drink no more than four units of alcohol a day, equivalent to a pint-and-a-half, while women should limit themselves to three, which is about two standard glasses of wine.
