Not sure about grabbing that beer? You’re not alone. Americans are reaching for alcohol at record lows, according to a new Gallup survey.
The survey, out Aug. 20, found the number of Americans who say they drink alcohol sits at 54% for the second consecutive year − and health concerns appear to be a major factor.
“Fifty-one percent of U.S. adults now believe drinking one or two alcoholic beverages a day is bad for one’s health,” the survey results noted. “The figure is essentially unchanged from last year’s record-high 53%.”
In 2001, only 27% considered moderate drinking bad for one’s health, according to Gallup.
I wish they would just ban it tbh, i still feel forced to drink once in a blue moon at a wedding or something. It’s poison you guys, zero medical usage, leads to violence, one of the only drugs where withdrawal can kill you. It’s just about the worst drug out there.
US tried that, it just led to a massive criminal empire with violence.
I know that’s why i said “i wish”, it’s an emotional response. Of course you cant ban it because that makes it worse somehow, but it’s really a more dangerous drug than cocaine and heroin and all the science backs that up.
US government always considers the drug problem a supply issue. They never, ever, ask why demand for drugs is so high.
It depends. I have an occasional drink. Is it awesome for my health? No. Do I think that a drink every week or two has any noticeable effect on my health? No. Have I had problem drinking behaviors in the past? Yes. Was that detrimental to my physical & mental health. Absolutely. Moderation is the main factor here.
Abstention is always better than moderation when the subject is poison. This is cope.
To each their own.
That’s like saying we each have our own answer to 2+2. Yeah, you can provide any answer you want and no one can stop you, but you can also be wrong and leave people mourning you early.
Sounds like the ideal is never drinking another drop, like good job microdosing alcohol for no benefit?
Who says alcohol has no benefit? Serving as an occasional social lubricant is a perfectly useful and valid benefit.
Dude, if you need chemicals to be social, that’s kind of pathetic. Asian students can’t really drink alcohol, they lack processing enzyme in the liver. As a result, asian university students pack into bubble tea bars. Everyone is very social, loud, laughing. Next day no one is sick.
You aren’t human.
You can do that with coffee, or any other drug that isn’t a literal polar solvent that poisons every cell membrane in your body. That’s fine you just don’t want to believe the science that alcohol is more dangerous than coke meth and heroin combined.
You need to get out more if you think coffee can serve the same function as alcohol socially.
Well that’s the point, coffee can’t serve as a lead-in to risky sex and bar fights
Dont like alcohol? Dont drink it.
thought terminating cliche. whatever gets you through.
I wish it was not considered cool and acceptable to advertise the most destructive drug on the planet in public, in front of addicts and children; one that has taken years of life from virtually everyone’s loved ones leaving us alone with regret. When Ford changed the rules so that there could be vendors at my local farmer’s market shouting at people to buy their alcohol on the fucking public sidewalk, I was so pissed off. I go there because it’s the only way I can afford to eat healthy food a couple days a week and I have no option to just go someplace else. Not that they have left me any place.
If only prohibitionists stopped at banning advertising. But they wont. They cant. They’re addicted to telling people how to live their lives.
So you’re a fan of drunk driving and liver disease?
please, tell us more about yourself. did your parents take your toys away when you were young?
Its one of the few drugs that actually gets worse the more you use it. We should be more honest and strict about how much someone should be allowed to drink, especially in public. Alcohol should be given an extremely short leash.
That’s literally all drugs. The dose is the poison.
No, it changes effects. Most other drugs the effects just get stronger and stronger. For example the respiratory depression from opiates progresses to the point breathing isn’t achievable. Alcohol progressively affects different parts of the brain, which causes different effects. So you have both the current effects worsening, plus adding more as you go that also get worse.
Take a course in school. People die of alcohol poisoning every weekend. 2,200 every year. People die of all kinds of excessive drug effects. You can die from a bottle of aspirin.
Pretty sure you are misreading what I’m saying.
Allowed? Are you going to pay my living expenses since you seem to believe you get to control my life?
Okay boomer.