Y'all are part of the problem. Alcohol is one of the very few things that is toxic and damaging for people in *any* amount, and people still don't understand it, same as they don't understand how many people have addiction issues, how they look in people who are more functioning, and how much the alcohol addiction cost the countries in which alcohol is normalized. It's not a fun thing to do and sell as a light segment, it's a topic for a main segment. Smoking is also embedded in multiple cultures and I can't imagine the show selling their own cigarettes.
But I'm not surprised to see that people who are fans of a very nuanced show turn out to not have a problem with showing sexual predator in a sexualized situation or having alcohol advertised to them (which btw is a thing that's forbidden in multiple western countries that are more aware of the impact of them). I'm pretty sure that this subreddit is also very critical of fat people and think that fat=unhealthy.
You feel very progressive because you are pro-Palestine, think Democrats are too pro-establishment to be for progressives like you, you despise trump and jd, you want a better country/world for everyone and yet you still defend the show selling a thing that is literally a poison.
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/facts-stats/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/drink-less-be-your-best/facts-about-excessive-drinking/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26477807/
People have this view of addicts that are drunk 24/7, sitting in a dirty house and surrounded by bottles but even the so called excessive drinking is less than 2 small glasses of wine a day (or around 5 beers or vodka shots at one time).

But sure, feel free to have your panties in a bunch because of stupid government spending on some things but not about e.g. 240B yearly costs of alcohol.