[tjwmason]

We have a big problem in their reasoning.

However, the academy argues that drinking levels should return to those of the early 1970s when the population drank on average seven litres of alcohol per head a year. This compares with the 11.1 litres now consumed.

The doctors said that drinking at levels of one or two drinks a day provided proven health benefits but that higher amounts began to do harm.

Taking the latter point, the official recommendation is 3 drinks per day (for a man). If one assumes that these are standard glasses of wine, each being 125 m.l., that makes 375 m.l./day of wine. That makes 136.875 litres of wine per annum. Taking 12.5% a.b.v. gives 13.86875 litres of pure alcohol; i.e., this excessive drinking (11 litres) is below the government suggestion (14 litres).

[metesky]

Good catch, tj.
;O)

[swarthyguy]

NO, no, those numbers are calculated using the effects of SHS on a human body with the same amount of alcohol.

Massages aren't just for backs. They work even better on stats.