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Anyone know what the curve for alcohol looks like? I know no amount of alcohol is "safe", and a lot of alc is very bad, but in between, what does it look like?

• acidburnNSA 4y ago
  I don't know, and that is very hard to measure definitively due to confounding variables. In the nuclear industry we have a similarly hard question for ionizing radiation dose. Since the 50s we just use a dumb linear no threshold curve, assuming every little bit hurts.
• laurencerowe 4y ago
  > Adults drinking seven to 14 drinks per week could expect, on average, a six-month shorter life expectancy as of age 40 > Those drinking 14 to 25 drinks per week could expect a shorter life expectancy by one to two years > Those drinking more than 25 drinks per week could expect a shorter life expectancy by four to five years https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/sorting-out-the-health-effects-of-alcohol-2018080614427 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/sorting-out-the-health-e...
  • delecti 4y ago
    Even the lowest of those seems like an astronomical amount to me. I'm not sure I have 14 drinks per year. If increasing my drinking by 52x would on-average lose 6 months of life, seems like I probably shouldn't worry.
    • laurencerowe 4y ago
      To put it in perspective, life expectancy for men in the US is about 4 years shorter than in Europe.