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>>4779606

Regarding addiction and harm, pic related. Regarding caffeine (and many other drugs) specifically, see:

"Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse" The Lancet 2007; 369:1047-1053

The Wikipedia article has a number of good references as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine_addiction

There's plenty of other sources--just google "caffeine addiction", as if simple observation of the business world and the prevalence of coffee shops wasn't enough empirical information.

Regarding sugar, there's a massive amount of evidence that over-consumption of sugar causes a variety of health problems: tooth decay, obesity, diabetes, to name a few. Now then, there is a bunch of pseudoscience out there that claims that sugar causes cancer or other such nonsense. But there's a lot of legitimate risks as well.

>>you're not american are you

Not by birth, but currently living in America. When I wrote that some people didn't consider alcohol a drug I was referring to other posters in this thread, such as >>4779422

Most people that I've talked to regard alcohol as a drug but there's always someone who thinks that "drugs" only refers to illegal ones, and that those are somehow "bad" whereas the "food" or those drugs which are legal are somehow "OK", whereas the reality is much more complicated. This is a pretty good summary of a recent study involving the health risks of even moderate amounts of sugar:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-08/uou-sit080713.php