Is alcoholism a problem of the poor?

That was then, but now they have raised the pitch, zoning in on the face of poverty, a feature that continues to define a significant section of our society. Picture this...a man wearing an unzipped jacket (with no shirt), potbelly overflowing above the beltline. The hands are full, as he carries in each hand, a beer bottle. With his right hand holding the bottle close, mouth hungrily attached to the lips of the bottle he surely looks like a consummate tippler.

He depicts a low class worker trying to drain his troubles in the alcoholic beverage. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, this poster, which is one of the many that is being circulated by the trade and industry ministry, goes beyond alcohol abuse. It reveals an interesting message; that alcoholism is a problem of the poor. It gives alcoholism a face, the face of a poor low working class, the proletariat.