We lost both wars. The Vietnamese kicked ass big-time. Since we never had the guts to formally declare war, we didn't have to sit down at a table and surrender. The other war we are still supposedly fighting. We lost, but we still don't know it.
Caffeine is still the most difficult one to shake.
At the too-early age of 14, I added nicotine to the list, and not very long after that, alcohol. For many years, I firmly resisted all other options. In the early 60s, my good friend Edward Meneeley established a tradition of holding a New Year's Eve party in his studio. I was dismayed, horrified when noticing at the first such party I attended that Allen Ginsberg, one of my heroes, was smoking marijuana. I was, in short, a young idiot, but then our government is also very young.