The phrase "acceptance of drinking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing attitudes or policies regarding alcohol consumption, such as in social, legal, or health-related discussions.
Example: "The acceptance of drinking in many cultures often leads to debates about its impact on public health."
Alternatives: "tolerance of alcohol consumption" or "embrace of drinking habits".
As long as teenagers see a level of acceptance of drinking by their parents, it'll take time.
Other cultures may show high acceptance of drinking as a social custom with a norm directing moderate use.
In contrast to drinking and smoking, where the protective effect of 9R/9R quickly diminishes beyond adolescence because of legal and social acceptance of drinking and smoking in young adulthood, the protective effect of 9R/9R for illicit drug use continues beyond adolescence because illicit drug use in young adulthood is no more socially and legally tolerated than in adolescence.
Cholera messaging was successful in promoting behavior changes to address the threat of cholera, especially in increasing acceptance of drinking chlorinated water.
Taste and odor have been highlighted as key factors influencing the acceptance of drinking water in this study and in earlier ones from the region; the value of this in the acceptance and sustainability of future water quality interventions cannot be overstated.
Such acceptance of heavy drinking on the part of wives may mediate any relationship between drinking and divorce, creating a weaker association in Russia than in other populations.
A bit too beloved, in fact, according to the Stop Out-of-Control Drinking campaign, which – via the site rolemodels.ie – hopes to "break the cycle of passing a cultural acceptance of excessive drinking from one generation to the next".
They say much about that society's acceptance of heavy drinking and about the peculiar relationship between the country's citizens and their police.
However, it is also possible that alcohol problems are more easily recognized and identified at lower levels in the US, due to greater awareness or lower cultural acceptance of heavy drinking.
32 This paper used data from England where, along with the rest of the UK, drinking patterns are shifting towards a Nordic-European pattern, 'characterised by non-daily drinking, irregular heavy and very heavy drinking episodes (such as during weekends and at festivities) and a higher level of acceptance of drunkenness in public' (p. 11, ref. 33).
A 2006 study by the Weinberg Group, a consulting firm that reported findings of several published health officials on alcohol use in Europe, showed that Europe generally has greater tolerance and acceptance for drinking than the rest of the world does, with alcohol used more in social settings and at family meals.
