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Alcohol intake and mortality
EDITOR, - Having read the Danish paper on alcohol intake and mortality,1 I am grateful for the sound advice from Ian Robertson that the message that women should drink a maximum of 14 units a week and men a maximum of 21 units a week is clear and unambiguous and should not be lightly given up.2 Morten Gronbaek and colleagues conclude that "simple messages about the benefits of total abstinence may not be appropriate," yet their total abstinence group is made up of "hardly ever/never" drinkers, with no information provided on the proportions of lifelong teetotallers, former drinkers (recent and long term), and occasional drinkers. No information is provided on the health status or lifestyle behaviour of any of the groups.
We have established that among middle aged British men those who do not drink include a high proportion who have given up drinking as they have grown older and
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