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I’m most surprised by the last fact > Sixty-seven percent of Americans in the most recent poll said they are drinkers, compared to 63% in 1939 I know alcohol
by cantaloupe 4y ago
I’m most surprised by the last fact
> Sixty-seven percent of Americans in the most recent poll said they are drinkers, compared to 63% in 1939
I know alcohol consumption rose during the pandemic, but it also seems to be increasingly common and socially acceptable to abstain from alcohol.
- mananaysiempre 4y agoDefine drinker. As is, it seems to be a poll not on the distribution of alcohol consumption, but on the social acceptability of alcohol—which is also an interesting question, just a different one. When drinking a lot becomes less popular, I’d expect drinking a bit to become the common case, not total abstention, and those people might still self-report as “drinkers”, even if they e.g. refuse to drink at parties.
- wyre 4y agoSeems like it is self-defined. Which if answered honestly I think is fine. Someone that drinks a glass of wine a day would likely describe them self as a drinker, while the person the person that only has one drink socially might not.
- seabea 4y ago>Do you have occasion to use alcoholic beverages such as liquor, wine or beer, or are you a total abstainer? https://news.gallup.com/poll/395867/say-alcohol-adversely-affects-drinkers-society.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/395867/say-alcohol-adversely-af...