When are certain drinkers going to realise that they’re just drinkers, consuming alcohol, like everyone else, with no special exemption from health consequences? Moreover, while there are some benefits to drinking small amounts, on balance they’re outweighed by other risks. Tax sugar, alcohol and tobacco to help the poor, say experts Read moreObviously, it’s far more harmful to drink heavily. These people fool themselves that there’s “nice” alcohol and the other sort and their demurely sipped mid-price plonk is “different” somehow to a slugged-back pint. Just as being comfortably off was never a magic health talisman against the dangers of smoking, neither is it against drinking too much.

Source: The Guardian April 15, 2018 06:00 UTC