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Subject: Re: OT: Sturgeon General warns even moderate drinking causes cancer
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On 2025-01-14 02:54:29 +0000, Pluted Pup said:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:11:17 -0800, Your Name wrote:
>> On 2025-01-13 22:23:56 +0000, The Horny Goat said:
>>> On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 04:30:44 -0500, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> In article<vlbfel$g7qt$1@dont-email.me>, super70s@super70s.invalid wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> And living to 100 causes death!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Reminds me of back in the 70s and 80s when they were always coming out
>>>>> with something causing cancer, a friend of mine would say "next they'll
>>>>> be telling us fresh mountain water causes cancer."
>>>> 
>>>> Just another attempt by leftists to reintroduce Prohibition without passing
>>>> laws or changing the Constitution...
> 
> The Left? The Left loves recruiting kids to alcohol
> and drug use, to "break" them from their squareness.
> 
>>> 
>>> I guess I must be a zombie then since I drank a 750ml bottle of wine
>>> on New Year's Eve (and subsequently paid for it but it's once a year).
>>> And it was a variety that has a rather higher alcohol content than
>>> usual to - I'm a big guy but was floating in my chair by the time I
>>> went to bed. (Haven't had a drop since)
>> 
>> Like anything else, alcohol can be good in some wasy and bad in others,
>> when used sensibly.
> 
> Like cigarettes?

I meant in the sense of food and drink.



>> That's why the "experts" change their minds every other week after 
>> doing yet another idiotically flawed study.
> 
> The media makes everything sound stupid.

True, but the constantly changing opinons based on these idiotic and 
flawed studies *ARE* stupid (as well as a massive waste of time and 
money).



>> Also like anything else, alcohol taken in excessive amounts will be bad
>> for you.
> 
> And like cigarettes, causes cancer. Teaching kids to drink
> is like teaching kids to smoke.

Personally I can't even stand the stench of alcohol to bother drinking 
it, but as long as people drink it *sensibly* there is no real danger 
to it and it can have some beneficial effects.