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Major study debunks myth that moderate drinking can be healthy.
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
LONDON (Reuters) - Blood pressure and stroke risk rise steadily the more alcohol people drink, and previous claims that one or two drinks a day might protect against stroke are not true, according to the results of a major genetic study.
The research, which used data from a 160,000-strong cohort of Chinese adults, many of whom are unable to drink alcohol due to genetic intolerance, found that people who drink moderately - consuming 10 to 20 grams of alcohol a day - raise their risk of stroke by 10 to 15 percent.
For heavy drinkers, consuming four or more drinks a day, blood pressure rises significantly and the risk of stroke increases by around 35 percent, the study found.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday April 11 2019, @05:55PM
OTOH, I do think that banning commercial advertisements by anyone except the actual vendor to anyone except reasonably potential customers should be illegal, and subject to a moderate per instance of violation fine. $500 sounds about right, with percentage decreases for "I had reasonable grounds to think that was a customer" down to, say, $25 (and all intermediate values at the discretion of the judge). But in particular going to a web page should explicitly not be reasonable grounds unless the web page was "property of" the vendor.
That said, under those circumstances I'd be in favor of even most class 1 drugs being made legal. My exception would be for antibiotics, and possibly a few other medical drugs.
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