This made me chuckle!!!
Coming from Europe ..... where this practice is still being used ..... then they'd ALL be alcoholics!!!!!!
I'm not belittling this .... I just found it humorous.
It's funny because just earlier today I wondered whether we alcoholics carry a gene or a personality trait that links us to alcoholism. Except that didn't seem to make much sense to me since I didn't START drinking until I was 43!!!!!