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No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Even the occasional drink is harmful to health, according to the largest and most detailed research carried out on the effects of alcohol, which suggests governments should think of advising people to abstain completely. The uncompromising message comes from the authors of the Global Burden of Diseases study, a rolling project based at the University of Washington, in Seattle, which produces the most comprehensive data on the causes of illness and death in the world. Alcohol, says their report published in the Lancet medical journal, led to 2.8 million deaths in 2016. It was the leading risk factor for premature mortality and disability in the 15 to 49 age group, accounting for 20% of deaths. The study was carried out by researchers at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), who investigated levels of alcohol consumption and health effects in 195 countries between 1990 to 2016. They used data from 694 studies to work out how common drinking was and from 592 studies including 28 million people worldwide to work out the health risks. According to the report, "27.1% of cancer deaths in women and 18.9% in men over 50 were linked to their drinking habits." The biggest causes of death linked to alcohol in younger people were tuberculosis (1.4% of deaths), road injuries (1.2%), and self-harm (1.1%).
"Worldwide we need to revisit alcohol control policies and health programs, and to consider recommendations for abstaining from alcohol," said the report's senior author, Professor Emmanuela Gakidou. "These include excise taxes on alcohol, controlling the physical availability of alcohol and the hours of sale, and controlling alcohol advertising. Any of these policy actions would contribute to reductions in population-level consumption, a vital step toward decreasing the health loss associated with alcohol use."
"Worldwide we need to revisit alcohol control policies and health programs, and to consider recommendations for abstaining from alcohol," said the report's senior author, Professor Emmanuela Gakidou. "These include excise taxes on alcohol, controlling the physical availability of alcohol and the hours of sale, and controlling alcohol advertising. Any of these policy actions would contribute to reductions in population-level consumption, a vital step toward decreasing the health loss associated with alcohol use."
You smoke, drink, AND JACK OFF WHILE DRIVING? Man, pgmrdlm you are one degenerate son of an ugly bitch!
...how many ugly people got laid because of alcohol?
According to my sample size of 1, about 12. Not counting myself.
And how many babies got made because of alcohol?
According to my sample size of 1, about 0. That I know of. And I'd know, else I'd have changed states sometime in the past 55 years.
The rise of anti alcohol studies and the rise of both feminists and jihadists.
I am not saying they are the same. But they both hate alcohol and white men.
So cannabis smoke is, then, a carcinogen. Got it, thanks.
Absolutely. I used the same defense at my drunk driving trial. "Just because I was drunk doesn't mean alcohol had anything to do with me rear-ending a cop car!"
Judge didn't buy it. Fucking asshole.
This other AC nailed it. The left's quest for a "New Man" will only ever end in Tyranny, just like it always has throughout history.
The other AC missed it. Your quest for a "left" will only ever end in a circle around the globe, just like it always has throughout history.
When you complete the circle, you're a new man.
Big apple, new Yorik, undig it, something's unrotting in Edenmark.
Only when he's been drinking.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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You are welcome on my lawn.
We'd account for even more driving deaths if we could only find our car keys.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Many people used to die from malaria
To be fair, there's no healthy level for drinking malaria either.
Without alcohol, how will ugly people ever get laid???
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........