This was effective in stopping me from drinking til age 20. Too drunk to google it right now, can someone enlighten me about this phrase?

In that vein, I propose another slogan: "Capitalism kills brain cells."

  • balloon [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    According to this study, there is no safe amount of alcohol :shrug-outta-hecks:

    https://www.insider.com/there-is-no-safe-amount-of-alcohol-2018-8 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31310-2/fulltext

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I fucking hate these moronic articles.

      Out of 100,000 teetotalers, 914 would develop a disease or injury associated with alcohol consumption, like cancer. In comparison, four more people (918) would be ill or hurt if they had one alcoholic drink a day.

      Oh really? Out of a total of 100,000, 914 in one group developed something bad and 918 from the other? A difference of 4? Wow that clearly means it's never safe and you will absolutely die. Like wtf does "no safe amount of x" mean, seriously? There is so many click bait articles like that and they're just embarrassing. "No safe amount of rhubarb exists. A study examined people who ate rhubarb once and people who didn't. The people who didn't lived on average 2.1 minutes longer. Therefore if you eat rhubarb once you will die". Just clown shit, at this point I'm pretty sure these articles take more years out of people's lives than whatever "unsafe in any quantity" thing they talk about.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Look at what it says. 4 more people. Compared to 914. In a sample of 100,000 in each case. This could literally be completely accidental, and even if it isn't it's just silly.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      Alcohol is more damaging to health than most illegal drugs, and I'd argue it's worse than tobacco when you adjust for typical consumption (pack a day smokers should be compared to people who drink 6-8+ drinks a night imo). The main reason we tolerate it is that it has such a long cultural history in the West.