DRINK AND LONGEVITY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, 24 April 1913, Page 26

DRINK AND LONGEVITY.

The opponents of true temperance and liberty, the coercive teetotallers, are continually stating that the most moderate use of alcoholic beverages leads to the shortening, of life, that it is interesting to know what independent thinkers make of their foolish contention. A statistical table lately published in a London journal gave particulars of the ages attained by those who refrain wholly from the use of ‘ these beverages, those also who use them in moderation, and those who abuse them by excess. The table was as follows: —• Years. Days.

1. Total abstainers i ... 51 . . 22 2. Habitual temperate .. drinkers 63 . . 13 3. Careless drinkers .... 59 . . 67 4. Free drinkers 57 . . 58 5. Decidedly intemperate drinkers 53 . . 3 It would be interesting, said the editor, to Have the views of a few eminent physicians, like Sir James Barr, for example, on these results.