Wow, if this isn't a conversation from two (three?) years ago.
As for the rest...alcohol doesn't usually fuck you up unless you abuse it, and the rest of them are illegal. It'd be like running commercials telling kids not to knock over a liquor store.
Problem is, not enough people will be watching the debate for it to matter, and even if they were, the format of the debate makes it impossible for Martin to land the kind of knockout punch that Mulroney landed on John Turner in 1984. Everyone's just going to be restating their platforms over and over, and no one's going to find out anything more than they would have from reading the newspaper for the last month.
Either April (NCAA basketball championship, Masters, Opening Day, NBA and NHL playoffs start) or June (NBA finals, Stanley Cup finals, U.S. Open, interleague play, and the World Cup/Euro Cup every other year) does it for me.
Cutting and pasting quotes with no context doesn't advance your argument any, especially when some of these reports raise uncertainties about the magnitude of the human effect. Specifically, the one by the AMS is just a call for further research, in order that well-reasoned decisions can be made.
Syracuse, because I grew up (mostly) just across the border from upstate New York and we used to get the radio station that carried SU sports. This was back in the days of Derrick Coleman and Sherman Douglas.
I honestly didn't think it was possible for Young to top last year's Rose Bowl performance, but he sure did. That may be the greatest individual performance in college football history.