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What drink tastes awful but somehow people still act like it's amazing? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

THe trick is to be 10 and your family allows you a little pony beer (old 8 oz glass bottle) 1-2 times per year. It takes away the mystery and when I was older, I didn't feel a need to go get alcohol behind anyone's back. And when I was 21, I drank occasionally, like with pizza sometimes or spaghetti, or a mixed drink socially or something.

Of course, for those that are alcoholics or otherwise get addicted to the alcoholic effects, it can be a struggle, but not really probably relating to when you start drinking in such cases.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Of course, for those that are alcoholics or otherwise get addicted to the alcoholic effects, it can be a struggle, but not really probably relating to when you start drinking in such cases.

    There's actually a well known, clear link between drinking debut age (first drink) and rates of alcoholism, as well as other adverse effects (something about employment I think, and drug use for sure).

    If I recall correctly the age of debut is statistically even more impactful than the age one starts drinking regularly, when it comes to rates of alcohol dependency.

    A lot of other things factor in as well, and a lot of things factor in to push an early debut of course... but drinking debut age is definitely a factor in alcoholism.

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