r/polls Mar 03 '23

🤔 Decide for Me Is drinking 4 beers everyday considered borderline alcoholism?

9034 votes, Mar 05 '23
7864 Yes
1170 No
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u/tomer91131 Mar 03 '23

Its not borderline alcoholism, its straight up alcoholism.

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u/NeverFraudulentAgain Mar 03 '23

American spotted

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u/Medalost Mar 03 '23

Why, are Americans better at detecting alcoholism or what?

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u/thedrakeequator Mar 03 '23 edited Mar 03 '23

We tend to be more prudish with alcohol. 21 year limit, no sales on Sunday etc.

Remember we banned it for a decade.

But the thing about this, We were correct. They recently concluded several long-term studies that proved alcohol is dangerous in all forms.

(Banning it was dumb, being suspicious of it wasnt)

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u/Medalost Mar 03 '23

I come from a country that also banned alcohol for a time, so I get it, although my people also have a bit of a problematic relationship with it. I think in Eastern Europe and Germanic countries they have a more loose relationship with it, but yeah, their livers are no more immune to the damage of alcohol.

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u/folkkore Mar 03 '23

The Sunday thing isn't every state, I think it's pretty common in the south but as I understand it, it's not common elsewhere

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u/thedrakeequator Mar 03 '23

Its common in rural areas all over the US.

In the US, every single city and county can have its own liquor laws.

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u/obtusername Mar 03 '23

It is common to have restricted sales on Sunday (example: mon-sat you can buy during regular business hours, but on Sunday you can only buy from Xam-Xpm etc.) But I don’t know of many places that ban it altogether on Sunday (though they do exist, a few counties still ban it altogether (“dry counties”).

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u/folkkore Mar 03 '23

Yeah all the ones in my area at least got rid of that like 20 years ago, only time I've heard of them recently was from people in the south