Word: alcoholism
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...think they’re into prohibition and never consume alcohol, especially not here...
...want to live indefinitely.' TOMOJI TANABE, of Japan, the world's oldest man, who celebrated his 112th birthday on Sept. 18 and told reporters the key to longevity is avoiding alcohol...
...more than 17,600 people were killed in alcohol-related traffic crashes, according to a new study from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Utah, whose Mormon population largely shuns drinking, is the state with the lowest rate of alcohol-related fatalities: just 24%. Hawaii has the highest rate: 52% of its fatal crashes involved high alcohol levels. To fight drunk driving, state courts may require that prior DUI offenders install devices that prevent impaired drivers from starting their cars...
...Lebanon's wine industry. It's a very Lebanese experience to watch Bedouin farm workers in the early morning light that illuminates distant mosques, as they carry crateloads of grapes to be pressed into a liquid that Islamic law forbids them, and most of their neighbors, from consuming. Alcohol production might seem incongruous in the overwhelmingly Muslim Middle East, but viniculture is an integral part of Lebanese culture - and not just because of the country's large Christian minority. Wine-making began in this part of the world thousands of years ago, and such was the importance of the Bekaa...
...course, they think that a lot of this stuff is genetic. I think I probably had the genetic tolerance for the chemical, and also the genetic predisposition for the addiction to the chemical, that my parents had. So I was able to consume quantities of alcohol without it affecting [me] - I didn't slur my speech, I didn't fall down. It's not until you get a little farther into the alcoholism that it begins really to exact a toll on you. It was a factor in the dissolution of my first marriage, and I was headed towards ruining...