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I can’t wait for the cult of alcohol to go the way of the cult of tobacco. Away.

The ads of yore about “most doctors prefer Camel” look alien today, yet the “moderate drinking is helpful” stuff is still with us.

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I agree. Personal experience is that even moderate drinking causes poorer sleep and mental performance but can only be observed after you have been clean of alcohol for months. After you are in the habit of drinking multiple times per week you can not compare your state to the baseline of non drinking. I ran into this by accident when training for a race and did not believe it when people told me.

Right on!

Alcohol has been part of human culture forever, I doubt it's going to go away.

Binge drinking needs to stop, though. Besides the obvious health hazards, it's also putting the rest of us — who just enjoy a nice glass of whisky once in a while, or some beer at a concert — in a needlessly bad light.

Drink for the taste, not for the buzz.

There are non alcoholic drinks that have the taste without the buzz if you don't want the health issues from drinking.

... and they are about as good a substitute as tofu is for real meat.

Please find me a non-alcoholic drink that tastes close to even a mediocre whisky or bourbon or rum or grappa or cognac, or any other aged spirit.

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