Heavy Drinkers Outlive Non-Drinkers
This piece from Time shows that teetotalers have higher mortality rates than those who only practice temperance moderately. This is even after all variables such as economic background, race, and gender were taken into consideration. Not only that, but those who have never been drunk are more likely to die than heavy drinkers, despite all of the disease risk associated with large amounts of boozing. Part of this may be that non-drinkers have higher rates of depression than those who like to party.
Perhaps the Puritans had this one wrong. Or maybe the socialist ideologues at Time are trying to excuse reckless behavior and further paralyze functional, moral America.
