This article from Bloomberg debunks the propaganda going around that moderate drinking is healthy.
It turns out that studies saying moderate drinkers live longer than non-drinkers have been including reformed alcoholics in the "non-drinkers" category. If you exclude from "non-drinkers" those who, for example, stopped drinking because they're in a hospice, you get a different result.
The article cites Emanuel Rubin, a pathologist and professor at Thomas Jefferson University, who suggested last year that the evidence was strong enough that doctors should consider recommending that patients start drinking, saying “the overwhelming evidence suggests that physicians should counsel lifelong nondrinkers at about 40 to 50 years of age to relax and take a drink a day."
This of course is bunk. Alcohol is a psychoactive, addictive, carcinogenic neurotoxin; that is, a poison. No good will come from using it.
