OK, but no amount of crossing the street is safe for your health, either. Low to moderate drinkers have better health outcomes than teetotalers. That's probabl

OK, but no amount of crossing the street is safe for your health, either. Low to moderate drinkers have better health outcomes than teetotalers. That's probably because unhealthy people are less likely to drink alcohol, but it also suggests that most people using alcohol are not exactly having their lives ruined. Futher, loneliness is epidemic in the modern west, and alcohol is a patently social drug. If drinking 4-5 beers a week gets you out of the house and talking to people twice, that might actually be a health win in the current environment.