As the Oktoberfest beer festival kicks off, a German court has ruled that hangovers are an illness. AFPFrankfurt am Main, Germany - A German court said in a ruling published Monday that hangovers are an "illness", in a timely judgement days after the annual Oktoberfest beer festival began in Munich.
The case landed before judges in Frankfurt when plaintiffs claimed a firm offering anti-hangover "shots" and drink powders to mix with water was making illegal health claims. "Information about a food product cannot ascribe any properties for preventing, treating or healing a human illness or give the impression of such a property," the sober ruling from the superior regional court read.
"By an illness, one should understand even small or temporary disruptions to the normal state or normal activity of the body" -- including the tiredness, nausea and headaches the company claimed its product could polish off, they added. In fact, doctors have long since coined the word "veisalgia" as a specialist medical term for the morning after the night before, the judges noted.
I can believe that. It's a mental illness even if it is fairly brief and self inflicted.
Yes it is a completely preventable illness that absolves anyone from exercising self control. It should illicit the same sympathetic response as seeing a paraplegic or someone undergoing chemotherapy.
Pathetic.
The illness was not knowing when enough is enough.
wonder how many people are going to be calling in with that 'illness' now
Ah! Now this is NEWS! 😉🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
Lol wow that's all I got to say about that.
I'm in chronic pain then.