Both Vanderzee and Daines said they have endured teasing from their peers because of their choice to remain abstinent.

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After ten years, 60% had become completely abstinent and 40% remained occasional users.

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Many missionaries become paragons of self-discipline, with their trademark white shirts and ties and a teetotalling, non-smoking, caffeine-free and abstinent Mormon work ethic.

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Reeling from recent heartbreak and stuck in religious-abstinent mode, Ted grudgingly goes out on the town with his swinging cousin, who comically coaxes him back into action.

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In fact, they discover that unlike an individual addicted to the hardest substances, a society addicted to government, especially a majoritarian democracy where rent seeking is rampant, cannot realistically be expected to undergo cold-turkey withdrawal and remain abstinent.

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