Brian
thank you. Coming from you, your "non-judgemental" response means a lot to me. You are too tactful to say I am just foolish or pre-alcoholic or driven by some inner demon, although at periods of my life I have been all of the above at once. No, it is meaningful to me because I know if there were demonstrated adverse effects, or tube disolving, or whatever, you would know about it and share that knowledge.
My personal reason is equisitely simple, I have always had a Dionysian personality instead of Appollonian. Or as the french say:"Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler"