Laws against alcohol, it is now understood, rest on the same basis as laws against morphine and other habitforming drugs, for modern science has conclusively demonstrated that eve n in small quantities the use of alcohol is injurious. \\> have actual statistics of life insurance companies which show that the moderate drinker, not beyond admittance to life insurance, has a mortality of 86 per cent, above the average, xxhile the extremely moderate dt inker, representing the minimum class in the four classes distinguished in these statistics, has a mortality 18 per cent above. Irving Fisher, of Yale University,
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White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 286, 19 April 1919, Page 2
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