New poll: only 54% of adults drink alcohol

Assuming the trend continues, I look forward to being in the vocal minority!

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“It only takes 54% of US adults to drink all the alcohol”

FIFY :smile:

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My friend group actually skip alcohol and order off DEA’s Schedule 1,2,3 list these days. Why take shots when you can drink matcha and take shroom chocolate?

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If the last decade has taught us anything, never trust poll results.

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I don’t know any of these people. I wonder if they are the same people who lie to their doctors about their health habits.

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Find the poll results unbelievable, literally.

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Aside from all the cannabis products and all the cultural trends discussed at great length on this board, I wonder how much this is related to all the other medications and pills that Americans are taking these days? Certainly not the case that society is ‘straight’ or ‘clean’.

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How much wine do you drink? Uhh… Just a glass a night, sometimes two. :face_in_clouds:

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I enjoy a snifter of port at Christmas.

But if those 54% include CamX purchasers, all will be okay based on the dozens of cases each is purchasing . . . :slight_smile:

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I thought I’d read stuff in the past that teetotalers were about half of US adults, but either way, this isn’t that hard to believe. There are entire religions which frown on alcohol, plus those in recovery, plus those abstaining for health reasons, plus folks who just aren’t in to it. My Dad is an example of the latter, with perhaps a tad of the health thing thrown in.

What percentage of US adults are Southern Baptists, Latter-Day Saints, Muslims, etc.? Even allowing for some noncompliance in the ranks, there are a lot of those folks out there, notwithstanding that you don’t run into many of them on wine boards, at offlines or cocktail parties, or bars.

There’s those that belong to a religion and those that are observant. I’d guess the latter is a small fraction of the former.

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Ha! My PCP and I had this exchange just yesterday.

My answer is always “more than you think I should.”

I think the notion that what is good for you/healthy should drive every decision has steamrolled a very large portion of the population. It’s relentless.

An article in the Atlantic, by someone who has a health newsletter or blog or something (it was a year or more ago, I don’t recall), said she gets questions about practically everything, whether it is “healthy” or not. She gave as an example that more than one person wrote her asking if orgasms are healthy. Her response was that the point of orgasms isn’t that they are healthy or not, it’s that they are FUN!

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I never saw my father drink a beer, and he maybe had a cocktail two or three times a year. By outward appearances (setting aside sacramental usage) he would appear to be an abstainer.

I just find it hard to believe that half of American adults never drink any alcohol.

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Absolutes are strong words, but throw in an allowance for de minimis, and the numbers don’t shock me.

Yeah, I think it is very easy to believe that most adults rarely drink. That is very different than what the poll represents (“have occasion to use” vs “total abstainer”).

I can believe the poll. My mother’s side of family, all her brothers and sisters (7) were teetotalers. Now my Italian father’s side (6) of the family more than made up for that!.

My doctor asked me how much I drink. I said, “As much as necessary.”

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