No mention of the thousands each year who get involuntarily "passed away" due to drunken drivers.
Dyson went to his neighbor’s house to drink at 1:30 p.m. After drinking about four glasses of whiskey and some hot water, he lay down on a bed. Everyone thought he was sleeping. It wasn’t until around 7 p.m. that his family members and neighbors discovered to their horror that he was not breathing. So they called an ambulance and gave him CPR at the same time.
Each year, alcohol kills approximately 95,000 people (68,000 men and 27,000 women) in the United States. Alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States (the first is tobacco, and the second is poor diet and lack of exercise).From 2006 to 2014, alcohol-related emergency room visits increased by 47 percent. Of all emergency cases, 18.5 percent were alcohol-related. In 2019, there were 10,142 drunk driving deaths in the United States, accounting for 28 percent of all driving deaths.
In 2018, top international medical journal The Lancet gave alcohol drinkers a bitter pill to swallow. After a systematic review of alcohol consumption and health effects in 195 countries from 1990 to 2016, this study concluded that the safe intake of alcohol is zero.
The researchers stated that alcohol consumption might have some protective effects on ischaemic heart diseases and diabetes in women in some cases, but emphasized that more research showed that alcohol consumption had no or insignificant protective effects on all-cause mortality or cardiovascular health.
Many people believe that drinking red wine is good for their health. In fact, this is mainly due to the presence of resveratrol in red wine. You can also get resveratrol from purple or dark red grapes, blueberries, cranberries and peanuts without the intake of alcohol. You can also have a glass of rich grape juice instead, and benefit from the resveratrol content without the negative effects of alcohol.
Looks like I picked a bad day to stop drinking.