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Old 03-23-2018, 05:16 AM   #27
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Default Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the week: Addiction and Alcoholism

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A lot of people reportedly can't get away from coffee the way others can't get away from smoking. But my personal experience with coffee is that I underwent several sudden and long-term (from several months to a couple years) shifts from drinking three cups a day to drinking none, with no ill effect. Somehow I think that coffee does not correlate with lung cancer, but the differences between people who can just decide to stop and those who can't still seems to exist.
There is a significant difference, however, with chemicals that may technically be habit-forming, but are not debilitating, expensive, illegal or likely to have any negative impact on a person's life. There is little evidence for long-term health risks from caffeine consumption and there have been many studies. Granted, one could probably find a study that links coffee with carcinogens, but given that any creature that lives long enough is probably going to get cancer, there are a lot of things that correlate with cancer. Like toast, orange juice and water, for example.

There is simply no reason to believe that the morning coffee is any more dangerous than morning toast. With that in mind, many people may not be so addicted that giving coffee up is impossible, they may simply lack any motivation to stop consuming a beverage that they somehow, inexplicably, enjoy.*

I don't think I'm addicted to Indian food, but I'd need a very strong and compelling reason to agree to give it up, because I like Indian food.

*Not a coffee person.
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