Hi Tynan, we need blogs and literature like yours that is positive. I don't look down on people who drink alot but I do feel sorry for them. If people try it, and get sucked in to the culture of it, its potentially a life long habbit that can result in premature death - but everyone thinks it'll never happen to them. I have not been quite the saint you have, but I've been pretty clean most of my life. At 14 I tried alcohol once in a while just like others. But even at a young age I knew I didn't want to spend my life like that. I did not drink again until 29 when I had a solid year of it before quitting again. It was not hard to quit but some people can't for a variety of reasons, I was just lucky. Anyway now I'm 37 and look 25 due to clean living and exercise. While alcohol is legal, and I don't dispute that, I am glad drugs are outlawed. I wish smoking was too. I'm proud to say that I've never tried drugs, and never had a smoke of anything.