Alcohol and death: the New Zealand experience

doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7369.904

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Andy M Wearn, clinical senior lecturer. (a.wearn@auckland.ac.nz)

Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1, New Zealand

EDITOR—As a simple measure of human nature, I suspect the initial impact of the paper by White et al on alcohol consumption and mortality will depend on the age of the reader1; as someone in the two unit a week group (by a whisker of course) I was drawn to read the article in more depth.

Although it is clear what the paper adds, it is harder to decide how it affects what …