LIQUOR SHORTENS LIFE.
Very impressive arc the fact- fu' n * ished by U.S.A. insurance societies as to the effects of liquor in shortening life. Records show that with a norm, death ra’e of 100 the daily use of 4 1 6 glassy of beer caused the rate tori' 1 to 186. flic chief medical director o| one great company says: “There seen to be ro limit within which alcohol mav be entirely harmless.” Moreover, wlrle the body may take a quantity of dangerous substances ai - completely recover, it is little likely t' do so with regard to alcohol, because 11 is a habit-forming drug. Very few ta<v it “onlv once.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 11, 1 December 1946, Page 8
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