‘no safe level of alcohol’, but Lancet study means 25,000 light drinkers need annual equivalent of 400,000 bottles of gin for one serious health problem among them each yearhttps://medium.com/wintoncentre/the-risks-of-alcohol-again-2ae8cb006a4a …
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exactly, but it’s reasonable to express total exposure needed to expect one case. Which is a lot
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It sounds like a lot when you multiply to the population level. For an individual, 16 bottles of gin per year is actually much less than average
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Over their life? That's 10,000 bottles per year for 40 years.
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I definitely thought this was a funny joke about excessive alcohol consumption in Brits
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You misunderstand the point. The dose makes the poison. To have a single incident show up in a town of 25k ppl, would require a HUGE amount of the substance. But the Study purports to find no safe level of consumption.
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