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No. Paying money to ingest poison is extremely unappealing
No sulphites from preserved meats either?
You know you don't have to eat meat?
I don't eat meat*
Now you do!
No fast food then either huh? Good on you.
Fast food is still mostly food. Cigarettes are pure poison and alcohol has negligible nutritional value (and I doubt that's why anyone is buying it). You have a point but you're being obtuse about it.
I'm not being obtuse about it.
If you want to be supercilious about not consuming poison (specifically alcohol here) which can be responsibly consumed to some limited personal / social benefit, it is on the same footing as fast food.
“I don't ingest poison“ from somebody with a BMI of 50 is hypocritical yum yucking and isn't a good look.
Edit:
Wait. Let's do this the honest way instead.
OPs comment rubs me the wrong way because after my second kid was born I went through some shit and had a period of alcohol dependence. That was and is not always easy to manage if you don't have an interest in abstinence. It's easy to judge people for ingesting poison, which is objectively true, but it is off-putting to get a lesson on the virtues of health from people who can't put down the controller, or the sandwich, or the vape.
Yeah I read too much into it and knee jerked. OP is phrased in a way that is sneakily general and impersonal using passive voice which may or may not have been intentional, but it read as high and mighty to me and that is irksome when I can remember a period of every day battles with the stuff.