Teetotalism

[7] Richard Turner, a member of the Preston Temperance Society, is credited with using the existing slang word, "teetotally", for abstinence from all intoxicating liquors.

[11]According to historian Daniel Walker Howe (What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848, 2007) the term was derived from the practice of American preacher and temperance advocate Lyman Beecher.

[12][13] Some common reasons for choosing teetotalism are psychological, religious, health,[14] medical, philosophical, social, political, past alcoholism, or simply preference.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Seventh-day Adventists, and Holiness Pentecostals also preach abstinence from alcohol and other drugs.

Since members are to be examples to the world (Romans 14:20–21) indulgence in any of these activities disqualifies then for Church or Sunday School work or as delegates to District or General Conference.

[22] The Book of Discipline of the Immanuel Missionary Church, a conservative Methodist denomination, states:[23] Temperance is the moderate use of that which is beneficial, and a total abstinence from that which is harmful.

Therefore no member shall be permitted to use or sell intoxicating liquors, tobacco, or harmful drugs, or to be guilty of things which are only for the gratification of the depraved appetite, and are unbecoming and inconsistent with our Christian profession (I Cor.

—General Standards, Immanuel Missionary Church[23]Uniformed members of the Salvation Army ("soldiers" and "officers") make a promise on joining the movement to observe lifelong abstinence from alcohol.

"[31] Similarly, one of the five precepts of Buddhism is abstaining from intoxicating substances that disturb the peace and self-control of the mind, but it is formulated as a training rule to be assumed voluntarily by laypeople rather than as a commandment.

[citation needed] In contemporary Islam, the concept of "khamr" (Arabic: خمر), which refers to a category of intoxicating substances that are forbidden, is now generally understood as encompassing all forms of alcohol.

[32][33] Dominic Conroy and Richard de Visser published research in Psychology and Health that studied strategies used by college students who would like to resist peer pressure to drink alcohol in social settings.

[35] According to Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health, published by WHO in 2011, close to half of the world's adult population (45 percent) are lifetime abstainers.