According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

— Xavier Becerra

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

— Raymond Chandler

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

— George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

— Ziggy Marley

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

— Jack Herer

Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled.

— Paul Hawken

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

— Katherine Jenkins

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

— Kim Kardashian

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

— P. G. Wodehouse

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

— George Soros