That's one thing I learned early in recovery, they're not going to stop making alcohol. And I tried to drink it all.
With me it wasn't an obsession, but a conscience decision to get drunk.
Then it became an addiction. A physical addiction
I liked to get drunk at first. Then I had to get drunk. Advertising had little to do with it.
I wanted it, I chose to drink it. Then I lost control to stop drinking it.
I agree, there is a lot of promotion of alcohol in this society, but ninety percent of the people who drink it aren't alcoholics.
Demand drives market. And I've read the ten percent who are alcoholics drink the largest percentage of the booze. Makes sense.
No one ever forced a drink down my throat. Well once, but that's another story.
They are never going to stop making it. And they're never going to stop pushing their product.
I could go on. Like how they advertise malt liquor in poor neighborhoods and cater to the 'elite' drinker with the world's most interesting man drinks a certain brand of tequila.
It aint going away.