Drinking culture
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Drinking culture is the set of traditions and social behaviours that surround the consumption of alcoholic beverages as a recreational drug and social lubricant. Although alcoholic beverages and social attitudes toward drinking vary around the world, nearly every civilization has independently discovered the processes of brewing beer, fermenting wine and distilling spirits.[1]
Alcohol, a psychoactive substance with addictive properties and other effects have been present in societies over centuries and throughout history.[2] Drinking is documented in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles,[3] in the Qur'an, in art history, in Greek and Roman literature as old as Homer and in Confucius's Analects.