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sluggercatfan said:
I HATE smoking and very seldom drink, although I do like some bourbon from time to time, but isn't it weird that in our society that smoking has become the evil vice while alcohol destroys homes and familes and can sometimes kill other innocent people , but is perfectly acceptable and encouraged ...:confused::(
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Mossip said:
I'm not trying to bust your balls or be an ***, but I just don't buy this. How can any beer lover not enjoy a basic beer like Miller/Bud? They have their time and place just like any other beer. Can't imagine grilling, tailgating, any sort of day drinking, etc. without knocking back simple gas station beer. And this is coming from a beer dork...
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I couldn't agree more about miller/ bud. The only way I drink anything they make is if it's free. You never turn down free beer. After finding out what really good beer tastes like, that crap is garbage.
 
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Drinking a Smuttynose Baltic Porter because Transycat had me salivating like Pavlov's dog for one.

Anyone like the taste of alcohol first thing in the morning when you wake up?
 
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I dont drink beer hardly ever. I pour a shot(or three) of bourbon three or four nights a week though
 
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at get-togethers with friends/neighbors, i'll have a couple beers. i'll have a glass of wine with a nice dinner. i like keeneland's draught beer, so i'll have a few out there occasionally.

other than that, almost never.
 
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Every night at home. Approaching middle age, same ole job, same ole day, same ole routine, day after day, year after year. My nightly drinking is probably the only thing I really look forward to every day.
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Yessss! I'm exactly the same, but I doubt you drink between like 20-26 beers every night like I do.
 
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ink-you-drink-a-lot-this-chart-will-tell-you/

Check out this infographic to show you how you stack up. Here's what surprises me:

  1. The bottom third of Americans do not drink at all
  2. The top 10% average 70+ drinks per week
  3. The 80-90th percentile has about two drinks per day
Basically, the top 10% is what is keeping liquor stores in business. Not only that, if we were able to get the group that drinks 70+ drinks per week down to the 80-90th percentile, total revenue of American alcohol sales would go down 60%.

I'm in the 70-80th percentile. I like to have a cocktail after work or a glass of wine at dinner. I do that about five nights per week.
 
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KellenPatrick said:
Yessss! I'm exactly the same, but I doubt you drink between like 20-26 beers every night like I do.
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Never would have thought I'd be in the 80th percentile of drinkers. I'm a Friday and Saturday night drinker. 6 beers each night, if not less.

Vacations and holidays call for a few beers as well. I'd say an average of 10 per week.
 
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Being diabetic, it depends on my blood sugar level. Under 120, yeah, I'm having either Hennessy or Three Olives. If it's over, I wait until I get under 120. I don't drink beer at all unless I'm doing something to work it off (yardwork, playing with nieces and nephews)
 
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sluggercatfan said:
I HATE smoking and very seldom drink, although I do like some bourbon from time to time, but isn't it weird that in our society that smoking has become the evil vice while alcohol destroys homes and familes and can sometimes kill other innocent people , but is perfectly acceptable and encouraged ...:confused::(
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Yeah, but I don't have to breathe or drink other people's alcohol. When I was a 20-something bar-hopper hanging out in smoky bars the smoke didn't bother me. Now, if I walk into a restaurant or bar where they allow smoking I just turn around and go elsewhere. The last time my wife and I were stuck in a smoky room we were both sick all the next day. I must have showered 5-6 times trying to get the smell off of me. We ended up throwing out the clothes we were wearing because they smelled so bad and we were away from home and couldn't throw them in the wash.

Smoking does kill people including the innocent only in a slow way. It is possible to drink responsibly and there is actual evidence that a moderate amount can actually be good for you. Every cancer stick takes some time off your life.

I am oh-so thankful that the first cigarette I ever smoked made me puke...
 
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sluggercatfan said:
cigarette taxes put plenty of money in the government coffers... Hail the young man in New York was killed over selling individual cigarettes because the taxes in New York City are so high
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It also cost us plenty in health care costs which drives up insurance rates and costs us billions in Medicare/Medicaid payments for the illnesses it causes.
 
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I'm with you on smoking, but the graphic I linked also shows that the alcohol industry makes their money on the misery of alcoholics. I kind of figured alcoholics were more like 1 in 100 instead of 1 in 10. Pretty sad.
 
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The alcohol is good for you in moderation study is flawed (surprise!). People who drink one to two glasses of wine are usually networking over cocktail hour, which means they are in some kind of business, are doing relatively well for themselves, and have health insurance. Therefore they go to more checkups and don't stay sick as long.

The effects of resveratrol (sp?), the ingredient in wine lauded for anti-inflammatory properties, are negligible. Most clinical trials weren't conducted on humans, but instead tissue cultures. A 2012 study that was conducted on humans was found to have over 100 falsifications.

You've just been dominoed.

I lied in my first post. I drank like a fish in my twenties. Apart from a weekend here or there, I don't really get inebriated as much anymore. To quote the great Hank Williams Jr, "hangovers hurt more than they used to."
 
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domino79 said:
The alcohol is good for you in moderation study is flawed (surprise!). People who drink one to two glasses of wine are usually networking over cocktail hour, which means they are in some kind of business, are doing relatively well for themselves, and have health insurance. Therefore they go to more checkups and don't stay sick as long.

The effects of resveratrol (sp?), the ingredient in wine lauded for anti-inflammatory properties, are negligible. Most clinical trials weren't conducted on humans, but instead tissue cultures. A 2012 study that was conducted on humans was found to have over 100 falsifications.

You've just been dominoed.

I lied in my first post. I drank like a fish in my twenties. Apart from a weekend here or there, I don't really get inebriated as much anymore. To quote the great Hank Williams Jr, "hangovers hurt more than they used to."
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I take resveratrol everyday. Yeah, I've heard about that study and how there were many falsifications, but I do believe it does help me with my regulating blood sugar and brain fog. Prolly a just a placebo thing.

The original hit on it came from mice (surprise surprise) and found that high amounts of resveratrol actually flips the SRT-1 gene which extended the mice's longevity. It just can't be replicated in humans.
 
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Nothing about 3 nights a week.
2-3 drinks about 3 nights per week.
About 5 or 6 1 night per week (Friday or Saturday).
 
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domino79 said:
The alcohol is good for you in moderation study is flawed (surprise!). People who drink one to two glasses of wine are usually networking over cocktail hour, which means they are in some kind of business, are doing relatively well for themselves, and have health insurance. Therefore they go to more checkups and don't stay sick as long.

The effects of resveratrol (sp?), the ingredient in wine lauded for anti-inflammatory properties, are negligible. Most clinical trials weren't conducted on humans, but instead tissue cultures. A 2012 study that was conducted on humans was found to have over 100 falsifications.

You've just been dominoed.

I lied in my first post. I drank like a fish in my twenties. Apart from a weekend here or there, I don't really get inebriated as much anymore. To quote the great Hank Williams Jr, "hangovers hurt more than they used to."
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I'm not sure what world you live in, but the one I live in actually requires links and sources when you say random things so we know you're not just making them up.
 
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WayneDougan said:
I'm with you on smoking, but the graphic I linked also shows that the alcohol industry makes their money on the misery of alcoholics. I kind of figured alcoholics were more like 1 in 100 instead of 1 in 10. Pretty sad.
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The data in this article was presented in a really weird way. Instead of giving you the 50th percentile, 90th percentile, etc. they gave the average within each percentile. So everybody in the top 10% doesn't drink 10 a day, but the people who drink an entire fifth of Jack Daniels (equal to 23 bud lights) in a day skew that average up. But, still, you have a very top heavy distribution.
 
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MdWIldcat55 said:
Most of my friends followed a similar path, if not quite as steep at either end, except those who end up with a dependency. For better or worse, the excitement of being buzzed by alcohol wanes in the 30s for many people. After that, the headaches and hangovers are progressively more not worth it.
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I'm late 20s and I get hungover less than I used to. Even after considering that I don't often do shots and get blackout drunk (THOSE hangovers are probably worse than several years ago), I used to feel worse after getting moderately drunk than I do now. I can often go out on a Friday, have 8 or 10 beers, drink plenty of water when I get home, and wake up feeling fine or maybe just a bit draggy with a bit of a headache that coffee and advil knock out.
 
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domino79 said:
The alcohol is good for you in moderation study is flawed (surprise!). People who drink one to two glasses of wine are usually networking over cocktail hour, which means they are in some kind of business, are doing relatively well for themselves, and have health insurance. Therefore they go to more checkups and don't stay sick as long.
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There has been more than one study examining this effect. One that I saw a year or two ago was a regression analysis that controlled for just about everything imaginable - income, health, prior alcoholism, age, gender, race, etc. - and still found that people who drink 1-2 drinks per day of beer, wine, or liquor have lower mortality rates than heavy drinkers or non drinkers.
 
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Hydration is the key and it's very easy.

water + beer + water + beer + beer + water + beer = a much more manageable morning.

That's a four-M-alliteration I just dropped on you hoes, if you're keeping score
 
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MdWIldcat55 said:
Not preaching, because I was probably a heavier drinker than you describe in my late 20s. But I wonder if, in a few years, even if the hangovers aren't that bad, you'll ask yourself: 'Am I really having that much fun getting 'moderately drunk' or am I just in a habit of behavior I started at a different phase of my life with diminishing returns and the potential for bad consequences?' Anyway, that's how it happened for me. I don't look back on my former heavy drinking self with any regret or embarrassment. But I also don't miss it.
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I mean, I'm not having 8-10 every Friday and Saturday. But, yeah, I generally do enjoy it. There's a point past which I don't enjoy it, and know that it will make me really enjoy the next day less. So I generally stay within the bounds of that. I expect the drinking to decrease once I have kids, if nothing else because I drink more when I go out than when I stay in, and I will certainly do a lot less going out when I have tots to take care of. I already drink moderately (1-3 most nights with a day or two of none) Sunday-Thursday, having settled into this pattern several years ago.
 
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