Here's Looking At You

Whatever the curse of the working class might be these days, it isn’t drink. A Gallup poll finds 66 percent of adults sometimes drink alcoholic beverages. But just 14 percent have more than one drink per day on average. In fact, while 28 percent of self-identified drinkers said they’d tossed one back in the 24 hours before being polled, 34 percent hadn’t touched a drop in more than a week. Asked how many drinks they’d consumed in the previous seven days, 34 percent of drinkers said none, 50 percent said 1-7, 9 percent said 8-19 and5 percent said 20-plus.