White women are drinking themselves to death (female, medical, spend)
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A lot of white women are on prescription meds for anxiety, birth control, blood pressure, or pain. Many of those drugs are not a good cocktail with alcohol.
I think wine makers have been very smart in marketing wine to us as a sophisticated drink--drinking a nice vintage of wine is not the same as lying in the gutter swilling Boone's Farm, is it? And then the health benefits of red wine--so good for us.
Add in the stressful global environment we live in..climate change, 24/7 connectivity with work, declining wages, terrorism, violence on our streets and in the news, over-crowding, road rage--I could go on, but you know what I mean. It's kind of gloomy out there -- let's uncork another bottle of vino and forget our troubles.
Die sooner? Who cares...?
I think wine makers have been very smart in marketing wine to us as a sophisticated drink--drinking a nice vintage of wine is not the same as lying in the gutter swilling Boone's Farm, is it? And then the health benefits of red wine--so good for us.
Add in the stressful global environment we live in..climate change, 24/7 connectivity with work, declining wages, terrorism, violence on our streets and in the news, over-crowding, road rage--I could go on, but you know what I mean. It's kind of gloomy out there -- let's uncork another bottle of vino and forget our troubles.
Die sooner? Who cares...?
I never, not once, ever swilled Boone's Farm while lying in a gutter. Bacardi now, that might have been different.
I think wine makers have been very smart in marketing wine to us as a sophisticated drink--drinking a nice vintage of wine is not the same as lying in the gutter swilling Boone's Farm, is it? And then the health benefits of red wine--so good for us.
Add in the stressful global environment we live in..climate change, 24/7 connectivity with work, declining wages, terrorism, violence on our streets and in the news, over-crowding, road rage--I could go on, but you know what I mean. It's kind of gloomy out there -- let's uncork another bottle of vino and forget our troubles.
Die sooner? Who cares...?
Some of us don't buy into it. I prefer a good mixed drink, and stop at one or two. No flowing wine continuously pouring into huge glasses. If I want to taste a good vintage wine, I'll taste and sip to really savor it.
What we are talking about here with them getting s***faced off their fancy wine actually is like swilling Boones farm, you are still getting drunk.
Some of us don't buy into it. I prefer a good mixed drink, and stop at one or two. No flowing wine continuously pouring into huge glasses. If I want to taste a good vintage wine, I'll taste and sip to really savor it.
What we are talking about here with them getting s***faced off their fancy wine actually is like swilling Boones farm, you are still getting drunk.
Of course, it's the same. Alcohol abuse is alcohol abuse. My point is that wine marketing has made it SEEM not the same.
Just as over-drinking the beer brought to you by nifty horse teams is not the same as over-drinking something else...
It's all about branding and building brand loyalty...
Well enough, for someone that isn't white. I know enough to know that white chicks have gone wine crazy over the last decade or so. Black women have too, for that matter. It's all the craze.
LOL...that's what i was thinking too. Women are drinking wine like it's water nowadays. It's the IN thing right now and doesn't appear to be going anywhere soon.
My wife is dropping car notes on the stuff.
Drinking wine is the new smoking, as far as how women view cool. As far as health, sitting is the new smoking.
Well, DD, come on now - she lives with you. Of course she's dropping car notes on something to make her feel happier......lmao.
Seriously, it's tv, from what one woman told me. According to her, The Housewives of Wherever, all feature women who drink early and often. And all I could think was, 'yeah - and who wouldn't want to be like them?'
I've noticed the same thing. It's cool, apparently, to consume massive quantities of wine and then to brag about it...Wine is trendy these days..as are flavored Martini's...
America runs on oceans of alcohol -- our preferred (legal) drug of choice...
Yet we send people to jail for weed. Go figure.
Well a lot of women aren't into the whole craft beer thing so they like to sip on some fruity wine at happy hour after work. There's nothing wrong with that. Martini's though are a ripoff imo. It's sort of a pretentious drink they're always overpriced and there's really not much too them. You can make a Martini at home for like .50 cents a pop calculating the cost of the liquor and so on. but I gotta admit I love the blue cheese filled olives that some Martini's have.
Most likely her lung cancer wasnt for smoking 20 years before that, though it might have a small chance to have contributed to it.
If never-smokers' lung cancer were a separate category, it would be among the top 10 most lethal cancers in the country, ranking somewhere near ovarian cancer.
Cigarettes are horrible habit and I hate even being around it but its not a large cause of lung cancer, for every 100 lifelong heavy smokers, less than 6 of them would ever get lung cancer
I knew 5 people that died of lung cancer. 4 smoked most of their life up until getting lung cancer (1 person quit 3 years prior, 3 were smokers when diagnosed) . 1 never smoked and wasn't around 2nd hand smoke. They were in their 40s, 50s and 60s. RIP.
I hope they make some medical advances that slow the death rate for lung cancer. It's a very deadly cancer. Just awful.
Last edited by sware2cod; 12-29-2016 at 06:49 PM..
I agree. Some people spend way too much time on the internet.
I'm one of those lightweights who gets drunk on 1/2 glass of wine. So I never make it to the gutter.
Yeah, me, too. I'm a cheap date...my body doesn't much like alcohol...but I do savor the little I do drink. A White Russian is nice in the winter...or a hot toddy or Irish Coffee during the really cold weather. In the summer, give me a cold Summer Shandy...but most of the time, it's just herbal tea or a glass of water.
I can't believe how much wine or other alcohol some of my friends can pack away...I'd be so sick. They worry me, and hope they don't become a statistic in the next article about women dying earlier from too much alcohol.
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