Im around people that drink all the time... everyone drinks...alot! My husband is Russian, and was merrily brewing gallons of spiced/flavoured/infused vodkas for the last few months. In fact I have had so much exposure to it, you wouldn't believe. The smell of it actually makes me queezy now. I can't even sniff one of his beers just for nostalga. Makes me want to gag! What I don't like, is the way people are when they get drunk... I hate it with a passion! I get so moody! Im not jealous or anything, I just hate the way they act. (Good god I used to be like that!!!) The funny thing is... nobody thinks THEY have a problem. I can go to a pub for a meal and happily drink soda and lime (nice and also cheap ha ha!) but I can't stay for long as people tend to get louder and louder, and their jokes aren't funny. Maybe its because I was so ill with it, its programmed into me that it is poison now because I had/still have physical effect from liver disease. Ho hum...