If you’re interested, there’s a BBC video on the history of gin:& tonic:

[bbc.co.uk]

@Zealandia Historically probably a reasonable accounting. The damage however caused by gin is seriously downplayed.

@FrayedBear Agree, it was called Mothers ruin for a good reason.

@Zealandia I used to know a woman who put it in her tea along with the milk & sugar. Always wondered why she and her husband had red noses!

@FrayedBear Almost certainly for the apparent medicinal properties of gin!

I had a great uncle who regularly swigged bottles of a lung tonic, it had a high alcohol content. He eventually died of liver cancer.

@Zealandia My adopted brother did that with Johnny Walkers red label. He lived about 6 years longer than prognostication. He would have roared with laughter at the coroners verdict that "although not causing death this man was highly intoxicated at time of death". Just how you can be "highly intoxicated" leaves me nonplussed at this ridiculous phrase - you are either intoxicated or not intoxicated. The coroner could have said that his blood alcohol level was 2.2 or whatever it was!
Clever country, Australia - must be, they accepted 500000 New Zealanders to lift the average IQ of both countries!

They argued about that, but it’s all in the past now.

@Zealandia So, back to the future plans then.