饮酒与戒酒：文化变迁中的矛盾现实

more who’ve given up alcohol entirely, largely for health reasons. But walk around Bow Street in the City of London after work on a Thursday, and the reports of mass abstinence appear greatly exaggerated. You’ll see wall-to-wall imbib- ers, at least a thousand strong, pints in hand. Sure, some may be non- alcoholic beers, but the vast majority are certainly not. Likewise, consider the proliferation of mar- tini menus—aka drinks that are pure alcohol—in restaurants and bars. THE CULTURE AROUND ALCOHOL IS CHANGING. THAT DOESN’T MEAN EVERYONE’S GETTING SOBER How can you square the doom and gloom around drinking with the ways in which so much of the world socializes, celebrates and relaxes? …