Could you move your beer to the back of the store, please. The kids are absorbing it through osmosis having it near the entrance.

Way to often the US comes up with the most stupid policies imaginable. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that in South Utah County they've passed a recent ordinance requiring stores to move beer displays a minimum of 15 feet from their entrance. There goal is to limit kids exposure to alcohol.

Doesn't their city counsel have better things to do than this.

Why is beer demonized? In other countries beer is a social way of life, something that families share together at the dinner table. Often ones first beer or glass of wine gets consumed with one's parents. It's a way of forming community bonds.

Tell me this, are the kids absorbing the alcohol by being in the mere vicinity of a case of beer? Can't the kids still walk to the back of the store and *gasp* be exposed to beer? Or are the children confined to the front of the store?

In my opinion there's way worse things kids can be exposed to right at the counter, say...pornography, cigarettes, or even junk food, candy, and soda. Last I checked diabetes was one of the worst epidemics in the US. How does it usually develop? Through obesity caused from a poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle. How about going even a little further, what about all the easy access kids have to the crap on TV, the Internet, and movies.

OK, I'm done ranting. You get my point. There's bigger fish to fry than fretting over kids walking past a case of beer when they walk in a store. Just leave it to Utah to come up with even more insane alcohol laws. As if their laws weren't already weird enough.