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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here — I came from a heavy drinking family and culture. Several close relatives and family friends owned and managed bars while I was growing up. Consequently, i spent a lot of time in bars even as a child. I saw people who didn’t have a problem, and people who said they didn’t have a problem. I’m not opposed to drinking. I’m just fascinated by the concept of dry January (be it alcohol or cannabis or … shopping). I’m Catholic so abstaining from something is not a foreign concept to me, so adding dry January sometimes seems like a repetitive concept. I rarely drink to the point that some friends/neighbors (not all) in the DMV make a point to say something that I’m having a drink. It’s weird because I don’t think of myself as a non-drinker but I guess it’s all relative when I have a drink maybe 4x a year and friends have a drink or more every week.

Again the thing that struck me was how many people (my age and younger) in the conversation said that dry January would be a struggle. I would not have beeen surprised if they were boomers or older.  Although I shouldn’t have been surprised since [b]COVID closures didn’t negatively affect ABC stores [/b]and takeout alcohol restrictions were relaxed.[/quote]

That’s because actual alcoholics account for something like 80% of alcohol sales. Liquor stores weren’t closed specifically because we didn’t need our ERs full of withdrawing alcoholics. It wasn’t because of the wine moms. I can’t believe how many people still don’t understand this.[/quote]

What the demographics of those alcoholics? How do you know 80% of the people buying alcohol are alcoholics?

Are you suggesting that non-alcoholics just buy drinks at restaurants and not for home consumption?[/quote]

Reread what PP said.  I have no idea if what they're saying is true, but they're asserting that 80% of alcohol purchased is purchased is purchased by alcoholics.  Not that 80% of people who purchase alcohol are alcoholics.

Think of this analogy (and this is totally made up): 80% of gasoline is purchased by airlines.  That doesn't mean that 80% of the purchasers of gasoline are airlines.  [/quote]

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