https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times#Editorial_b...
Maybe they're all out having boozy lunches, who knows.
2) Cars are the problem, not pedestrians and not drivers. It's Time for America to Admit That It Has a Car Problem. Poor, car-centric infrastructure and increasing vehicle size.
3) There are an estimated 117,000 alcohol deaths in the US each year. Nothing to do with cars, that's just the damage from putting it in your body. And no, unlike the article says, there is no safe limit for alcohol consumption
Then the article goes completely off the rails claiming that Oreos are "snacks for children". There is a clear difference between the way snacks where advertised to children 30 years ago and a company using that same advertising now. Cannabis use has remained stable among adolescence since the 2000s. Growth has been driven by college-age and older. It also downplays the harm companies kraft, through Nabisco do to actual youngins.
Alcohol and sugar/cereals/sodas are leagues more socially harmful (obesity deaths 300,000 per year). But this article treats them like no big deal, or that they are properly regulated. None are, in America, for better or worse, it's up to you to learn the risks and free yourself from mis/disinformation. But Time publishing noise makes it difficult.
Whether you want to use alcohol, sugar or THC. It's not the Times nor governments business to decide if you are "worse off" for it. This is the kind of scope creep that kills most countries.
America drank so much back then that the Federal Government was fully funded on liquor taxes, the first Federal income tax was not collected until prohibition took effect.
Not saying things are perfect now, but they used to be much, much worse. Highly recommend the Ken Burns Prohibition documentary for a deep dive.
[0]: https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2014/wi...
Because I have trouble imagining the average American (or whatever person) drinking 2.3 gallons of ethanol in a year. A 4% beer is 0.5 fl oz of ethanol, which is 0.004 gallons. 2.3 gallons of ethanol would be more than 575 4% beers per year.
I definitely don't believe the 50% of Americans consume that much alcohol in a year. Supposedly 40% of people don't even drink alcohol, at all. The 7.1 gallon figure seems nonsensical too.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/01/03/10-facts-...
This source says 27 gallons of beer (or 297 beers) per year per capita, but I bet alcohol consumption is distributed such that 90% of consumption is by 10% of people, or even less.
