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All cause mortality is lower among light drinkers than non-drinkers.

Small doses of harms are typically beneficial. Not all harm is bad, and safety is not always desirable.

This could just mean that light drinking is correlated with other behaviors that offset the damage from the alcohol.

I know you’re trying to be clever but harm is definitionally bad.

I think he is referring to hormetic stress. But WHO says the same about lead… there is no safe level. I wouldn’t want to stress my body lightly with a light amount of lead.

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