Caffeine & Age Restrictions

Do you depend on caffiene? Many are and Dangerous Dave talks about how we get our fix and what it would take for us to give it up. Plus, age restrictions on driving, drinking, voting and other things some believe should be changed.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the din with dangerous date. Well,
have you got your infuse of caffeine yet? And a
lot of coffee drinkers admit they're addicted to caffeine, usually
lighthearted about it, but it does have a death grip
on some of our mornings. In a new survey, eighty
one percent of Americans said they drink caffeine, and half
of them say their biggest caffeine sources coffee, twenty percent

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said caffeinated sodas, seven percent said tea, and four percent
guzzling energy drinks. Thirty percent of people have actually tried
to quit caffeine, but six percent have not. Maybe we should.
Thirty two percent say they have not tried to quit
but wouldn't even try. Only six percent of people who
have tried to quit caffeine have been successful. By the way,
for a lot of people, drinking caffeine is an all

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or nothing habit. Twenty nine percent of caffeine drinkers said
they have it several times a day, another thirty two
percent enjoy it once a day, in twelve percent get
by with a few times a week, and just six
percent limit themselves a few times a month, every week
or so one percent of caffeine drinkers said they have
it less often than that. People who were asked what
would make them seriously quit or eliminate caffeine, thirty four

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percent said it would have to be for health reasons,
twenty three percent to improve sleep, nineteen percent for dietary reasons.
Seventeen percent didn't like how caffeine affected their mood or nerves,
and seventeen percent said they would quit if it didn't
feel like they depended upon it. I feel like I
need to have a little bit of caffeine in the morning,
for sure. I did a story a few years ago

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about caffeinated underwear, and I wasn't even going to try
that because I know something like that would keep me
up all night. Deeper in the two. How do you
feel about the current age restrictions for things like driving
or drinking and voting, maybe even seeing an R rated movie.
A new poll asked age requirements for various things and
found the majority of Americans would raise the driving age

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above sixteen. Fifty two percent of Americans said you should
be older than sixteen to be allowed to drive. The
age group that agrees with the most eighteen to twenty
nine year olds, fifty eight percent of them said sixteen
is too young to drive. Most Americans, fifty four percent
also support a maximum driving age. Ten percent of people
think the cutoff should be ninety, twenty one percent said eighty,

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and twenty three percent said younger than eighty. Not surprisingly,
boomers least likely to want the maximum driving age. Americans
are divided about drinking age two Forty seven percent say
it's cool as is at twenty one, and forty one
percent said younger than twenty one or no minimum. Twelve
percent of people said it should be older than twenty one,

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interesting eighteen to twenty nine year olds much more likely
to say it should be younger than twenty one and
older than twenty one. As for other age limits, Americans
agree that current restrictions for R rated movies, marriage, pornography, gambling,
and voting, but around ten percent of Americans think people
should be older than twenty one to get married, watch born,

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or even gamble legally. Twenty two percent believe you should
be able to get married younger than seventeen. Seventeen percent
think you should be able to watch porn before seventeen.
Nine percent said you should be able to gamble legally
before seventeen, and twenty five percent think you should be
able to vote before you are eighteen. So the age restrictions,

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I kind of like them the where they're at. Uh,
you know, it's the thing is people are going to
do things illegally anyway to a point. You know, I
know some people that drove at a very young age.
That was one advantage of growing up on a farm.
Tuning again for another episode of Deeper in the Den
with Dangerous Dave right here.