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Re:Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016) by jlarocco on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:02PM (#13537514)
> That 1820s number, if you do the math, was ~1.4 shots of Everclear or 3.5 shots of modern 80 proof whiskey per day for the average citizen.

3.5 shots of whiskey is about the same amount of alcohol as 3.5 beers. Round up, and it's a couple at lunch and a couple at dinner. Almost nobody's going to get very drunk off that, and a lot (most?) people won't even get tipsy. Factor in that people build up a tolerance to alcohol, and it doesn't seem too bad.

Long term, I'm curious if it's any worse than 4 sodas a day?

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Re:Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016) by Balgair on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:04PM (#13552814)
Yes, but your liver and heart don't like that much ethanol every couple hours, every day of the year. Russian men die because, it is thought, of their drinking culture.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/31/russian-men-lo...

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