5 % is not a much of a credible number.
5 % probably sober up by dying, cirrhosis is a sobering process.
Almost all substances and activities that give pleasure or respite, are "addictive".
Cycling, at least, only dents the wallet and not the internals.
I never criticize addicts. They are just trying to get along and not blow apart.
I blow gas. It does not rot. Don't do anything if you can stand to live unaided?
A life in balance does not need drugs, so much as the cliche of hugs.
Bill Watson's last words, nearly, he giggled to his wife,
"Look'it me? I'm have-in a ba-beee."
His gut was that swollen, as his liver shut down and the rest of him, skeletonized.
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We can't say that moderate drinking is any form of sure death.
Ernie's daddy was a dentist born in...1895...he drank one shot of straight scotch
every other day, as a "tonic". That was considered common sense, germs.
Abe lived ninety seven years, succumbing to prostate or bladder cancer, we suppose.
Well, no autopsy was done, but it's clear as rainwater:
if the demon liquor don't get you from the top it will rot you from the bottoms up.