No booze would give me the blues

Cutting back on alcohol may make sense – but in January? Our columnist balks at the idea.

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Like Jack Lemmon in Under the Yum Yum Tree, one feels sorry for people who don't drink "because when they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day". So naturally, one is shocked to hear that, "in recent years, the concept of dry January', or swearing off alcohol for the first month of the year, has gained in popularity around the world", as Jason Daley writes for Smithsonian magazine.

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