The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
people who abstain from alcohol for a reason which is often where people are abstaining from alcohol they're either former drinkers um or uh they have health reasons that prevent them from drinking it there's often this paradoxical increase in mortality that we see
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and the largest one uh that that I've seen is the recent one that came out in jamama last year it included 1007 cohort studies and nearly 5 million lives were studied and it compared a bunch of different entities to lifelong abstainers
You have people in the never drinking category who are never drinking for health reasons and things like that. And if you strip those people out that that that little uh J curve goes away.