Your asking questions from the viewpoint that is not based on any factual evidence.
I am speaking on scriptural evidence as well as personal experience. You have had no impact on my conscience with all your facts and figures and personal opinions. I don't drink anymore, I don't do a lot of things anymore, because the Holy Spirit gave me new desires to replace old carnal things.
Your testimony is no more powerful than mine or others than to encourage others to abide in Christ
and do the Lord's Will.
Do you have any idea how many people who turn away from even considering a life in Christ because some people portray that life of a Christian as a life in abstinence. Are you familiar with the Bible Belt?
I grew up in south Louisiana, a place of revelry. I went to college in north Louisiana, in a dry county of the Bible Belt. Back then, Christians who espoused their own virtues of "I don't drink, smoke or cuss", were considered the quintessential "holier than thou's" of society. I now know better and have much respect for them and you. I thank God for all believers, what would the world be like without them?
Christ came to save sinners, of whom I know myself to be one of great ones. I know that now more than ever, because when we are younger, we don't see ourselves as the sinners we truly are in the heart.
The greater sins of the heart that the Holy Spirit must deliver us out of are much greater than worldly vices. This effort you are making to convince all on this forum, including non-believers looking for Truth,
in regards to alcohol is not just laying a stumbling block for them, you are building a Wall! I beg you to cease and desist.