What is the significance of drinking tea to Russians?

People usually think that Russians are addicted to alcohol. In fact, it is more appropriate to say that Russians are addicted to tea, because the former is typical but not everyone is, and drinking tea is an indispensable part of every Russian's daily life. Nowadays, most Russians do not deny that tea, an exotic product, has become Russia's national drink. In Russia, people can't live without tea for a day. As the most popular public hot drink, you can drink fragrant hot tea at home or as a guest, in food stores or cafes, in snack bars in theaters or street stalls selling hot dogs, as long as there are places where food is sold. They usually ask customers who are drinking tea to buy them a cup of tea or give them a few rubles. As soon as they got the handed coins, they went to the counter to buy a cup of hot tea. If you are unlucky, you have to drink the rest of others. Russians have only been drinking tea for 250 years.