[goonogle]

As long as you don't become an addict.

I think most people start with 4 drinks per week. 12 years later is a different story.

[eikenberry]

Assuming this site has decent numbers, in the US around 5% of people >26 years old have an "alcohol use disorder". Presumably the majority of those are addition disorders. But that means that after 12 years 95% of them will still be fine.

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-s...

[osmarks]

Presumably an alcohol use disorder is quite bad. Is the benefit of drinking alcohol really enough to offset the fairly significant risk there?

[goonogle]

So tens of millions of people?

Sounds like a public health crisis

[watwut]

Most non-abstinents are not alcoholics and that holds true even in countries with high rates of alcoholism.

Also "most people start with 4 drinks per week" is made up. Regardless of where you put "start".