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Graph is for everyone, not just drinkers. So headline is more than a little off as the bottom 3 deciles drink 0 and are therefore not "drinkers".



I'm curious about the specific questions asked.

For a few years I drank so infrequently that across a year my weekly average would be below 0.25 drinks/week, but I wasn't a "never" drinker. There might be a difference between people who literally never drink (recovering alcoholics, lifelong teetotalers) and those who do drink, but who do so so infrequently that their average would round down to 0 depending on the question asked.


Is zero a number?

edit: If they removed a third of people, the average for the top 10% of the nonzero drinkers would probably be a lot more.




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