To drink or not to drink, the question often arises in society, but it is still necessary to have the choice of the answer.
“
I don't like bitter or acidic things, I don't like alcohol in the same way as grapefruit and orange
”.
Sandra, a 72-year-old retired legal clerk, tells us that she never drank alcohol for pleasure, but she often felt she had to pretend to dip her lips in a glass of alcohol in order not to play. spoilsports.
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The septuagenarian is one of the 23% of non-drinkers in France, a status not without consequence in a country where wine is part of the heritage.
France is the sixth largest alcohol consumer among the 34 OECD countries, according to figures from Public Health France published in 2020. Birthdays, dinners, parties, all occasions are good for drinking.
Alcohol inaugurates encounters and seals friendships.
And abstinence rarely goes unnoticed.
If until her twenties, Sandra suffered little…
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