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A common prank is to [[Intoxication Ensues|trick this guy]] into drinking a "Long Island Iced Tea" (which ''is'' an alcoholic drink).
See also [[Straight Edge]], [[Smug Straight Edge]], [[Straight Edge Evil]], and the [[Dry Crusader]] who is the more militant and self-righteous version of [[The Teetotaler]]. Contrast with [[I Do Not Drink Wine]]. Direct opposite of [[The Alcoholic]]. These guys often prefer a [[Spot of Tea]] -- though that's ''not'' where the "tee" in teetotaler comes from, [
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* [[Richard E Grant]]. [[Cue Irony]] when he was cast as the alcoholic Withnail in ''[[Withnail and I]]''. The director got him to go on a drinking binge once to better understand the character. Grant reportedly found it "deeply unpleasant".
* Possible [[Trope Codifier]]: Wyatt Earp was known for drinking tea instead of alcohol. This obviously gave him a useful advantage in reaction time when breaking up (the perpetrators of) barfights.
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* [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] saw alcoholism as a method of escaping from reality, which was also the basis on which he rejected religion and mysticism.
* [[Kiss|Gene Simmons]] states that the reason that he's such a successful rock star was that he never drinks and never does drugs.
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