What it the significance of soda in a Streetcar Named Desire?

Lucy

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Studying this play for A-level and wondered if the soda is significant or is a representation of something else because they always - Blanche in particular - seem to be drinking soda!

I understand the double meaning of the cherry soda in scene 5 but fail to see why Williams repeatedly has Blanche drinking or asking for soda. Is it a dependency thing, like the alcohol? Or does the soda represent something else?
 
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