Comment on Rich ppl live longer

• GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It means that any amount of alcohol increases the odds of you dying sooner or having other negative health effects sooner (which will lead to you dying sooner). There is no amount that won’t increase those odds. It says nothing about how much any given drink would impact your life span. I’m not saying it’s negligible or significant, but I can’t be bothered to look it up.

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  • jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Come on, you have to say it’s positively correlated rather than causative that’s the whole point of the thread.

    This isn’t a hill I want to die on, but I don’t think it’s a meaningful claim without a bit more nuance.

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    • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Well, the WHO puts it in the same category as tobacco. Is tobacco just strongly correlated to cancer? And I don’t need to say it is causative, because The Lancet did.

      You can stack that data up against your anecdotes however you like.

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      • jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Did you read that paper? I don’t believe it supports your argument.

        The mechanism by which smoking causes e.g. lung cancer and the significant rate at which it does so is well understood. I’m it convinced the same can currently be said of alcohol.

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