[fwdude]

Many people should have zero alcohol.

Yep.

Traffic deaths would decrease by over 80%.

Other health effects would immediately be solved.

There is NO benefit, either personally or societally, from drinking alcohol.

[EEGator]

I’m Philly Irish by birth, so we all know people...

[unixfox]

Traffic deaths would decrease by over 80%.

And you know this how?

[cherry]

"Traffic deaths would decrease by over 80%."

unprovable....most DUI's are tested for alcohol, because its easy to test for....I suspect that for several decades now we've had alcohol taking full blame for accidents when the driver was impaired with cocaine,meth,weed, opiates, etc...

"There is NO benefit, either personally or societally, from drinking alcohol."

and yet Jesus made water into wine.....

I rarely drink but why the heck not?....its a relaxant.....its used for pain control in many countries...in Russia they use vodka to treat dystonia for example.

what perplexes me about this study is why prevention is not pushed and instead researching a drug that gives the green light to drinkers to keep drinking....

pancreatitis is avoidable if people stop drinking....although after you've had a couple rounds of pancreatitis drinking or not you are more likely to have further episodes....

[MotorCityBuck]

Well. Let’s not get carried away.😉
Some people handle alcohol just fine. Others don’t.

[Observator]

There is NO benefit, either personally or societally, from drinking alcohol.

This is an incorrect statement.

I think what you mean is that, in your opinion, the negatives of alcohol outway any positives. If that's you're point, I agree. Or it's at least close.

However, the 18th Amendment was a good trial balloon that sank like a Led Zeppelin.

[muir_redwoods]

Alcohol is no ones friend