But at least I'm sober. Forcing a smile at work linked to heavy drinking: study Employees who work in the public eye who force themselves to smile for customers or hide feelings of annoyance may be susceptible to heavy drinking after hours, according to a new study. https://www.foxnews.com/health/forcing-a-smile-at-work-linked-to-drinking-report.amp
No, but there is an ongoing parallel study that could answer that. Does smiling and pretending to be happy or scowling and shaking head in disbelief when the president says something far beyond the pale such as windmills cause cancer affect excessive drinking or drug use. Preliminary results indicate increased marijuana use amongst the scowlers and heavy use of alcohol amongst the smilers. The difficulty they are encountering is that heavy drinkers were heavy drinkers before he started with his platitudes and he generally saves the Whoppers for the weekend when consumption is highest. Also the only control group that just shrugs that they found do not have access to recreational drugs and alcohol, sanitariums generally deny their residents such things.
