No, non-alcoholics don't get it.
They have A drink. Maybe a second. And that's all they want of that feeling. As I told my sister one day when she suggested she would drive and I could have a beer: That's just lighting the kindling. The fire comes.
But, they can't understand. They can't comprehend. It's alien to them.
And death to us.
So, keep telling them NO. I can't drink. I'm allergic. Whatever works.