On the health benefits of alcohol...

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A very cheering quote (OK it's the Daily Mail so treat with caution):

Most of the evidence suggests that if red wine, in particular — and to a lesser degree white wine, beer, lager and spirits — were used as a preventive and therapeutic medicine, disease rates would fall substantially. Not only that, but lives would be saved — with huge benefits to the economy.

Of course we've being saying this for years...

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