> significantly harder to get addicted to

Are you sure about that? It has negatively affected millions of people in the US.

"A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry this month finds that the rate of alcohol use disorder, or what's colloquially known as “alcoholism,” rose by a shocking 49 percent in the first decade of the 2000s."

One in eight American adults.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...