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Alcohol Caused One in Eight Deaths of Working-Age U.S. Adults
Smithsonian Magazine ^ | November 8, 2022 | Sarah Kuta

Posted on 11/09/2022 1:01:39 PM PST by nickcarraway

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Put this together with the fentanyl deaths, etc.
1 posted on 11/09/2022 1:01:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: NWFree

Ping


2 posted on 11/09/2022 1:02:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Don’t forget tobacco.


3 posted on 11/09/2022 1:02:34 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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Have tobacco-related deaths jumped?


4 posted on 11/09/2022 1:03:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Jabs caused one in six


5 posted on 11/09/2022 1:03:17 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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I’d drink to that but the house is dry after last night.


6 posted on 11/09/2022 1:04:17 PM PST by quikstrike98
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To: nickcarraway

So outlaw it.


7 posted on 11/09/2022 1:06:53 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: nickcarraway

Marijuana desensitizes the gag reflex, allowing for more alcohol consumption. Alcohol also calms the edgy, nervous beginning of a marijuana high and soothes the paranoia. Many meth addicts (who smoked pot first) also get drunk enough to pass out after getting paranoid on meth.


8 posted on 11/09/2022 1:07:39 PM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: nickcarraway

Nearly 108,000 drug overdose deaths in 2021. Driving is really fun these days. I’m going out to install new cameras in a car.


9 posted on 11/09/2022 1:13:00 PM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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Drunks are dropping like dead flies


10 posted on 11/09/2022 1:13:08 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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I remember reading one of those (dead white author) American classics. A man had whished for a beer mug that would never empty, and he died of alcoholism. When I’m shopping on a payday, I see workmen walking out of the store with one, two or even more cases of beer. Having known a few of these men I’m certain most of them will polish off the whole thing in a short time. The fact that beer is so incredibly cheap allows the average guy to buy what amounts to an endless supply. Part of this is a reflection of our incredible wealth in comparison to humans of the distant past who had to struggle to find enough calories to survive. The same is true of the incredibly cheap foods. I’ve seen people weighing three hundred or more pounds with a sign reading, “Will work for food.” The excessive drinking, eating, smoking and drugs that cause excessive deaths are all symptomatic of a deeper problem which is in the mind and possibly the genetics of the people who find this excess irresistible. I have no answer, but I daily see people slowly (or sometimes faster) committing suicide.


11 posted on 11/09/2022 1:16:35 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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Subject of the thread title needs better context.

Last words during a alcohol related death might be: “Here, hold my beer and watch this”.

12 posted on 11/09/2022 1:16:57 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Alcohol related death includes choking on vomit while passed out.

Pulmonary aspiration- Vomit inhaled back into lungs, blocking oxygen, resulting in death.


13 posted on 11/09/2022 1:20:30 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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But unlike fentanyl, or even tobacco now, alcohol use is still socially acceptable ... even encouraged

that makes it even harder to resist and then stop


14 posted on 11/09/2022 1:23:20 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Col Frank Slade

Otherwise known as Doin a Jimi Hendrix


15 posted on 11/09/2022 1:25:29 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: familyop

I knew someone would blame weed.


16 posted on 11/09/2022 1:25:34 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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They build that bridge a little too far to be logical. Only confirmation bias holds it up temporarily.


17 posted on 11/09/2022 1:36:28 PM PST by BipolarBob (I was born into this world with nothing . . and I still have most of it .)
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To: nickcarraway

Strange timing for an article about alcohol. Traditionally, large amounts of alcohol makes communism somewhat tolerable.


18 posted on 11/09/2022 1:38:37 PM PST by robel
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nickcarraway wrote: “Put this together with the fentanyl deaths, etc.”

This has got to be ‘fake news’ because so many have told us that all these deaths were caused by the vaccines.


19 posted on 11/09/2022 1:49:41 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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During the “lockdown” we were encouraged to drink alcohol. Liquor stores remained open but many other types of businesses were forced to close.


20 posted on 11/09/2022 1:50:34 PM PST by I want the USA back (Our news media isn't worth camel spit. Neither is the democrat party. )
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