[swatcoder]

It's mostly only here on HN where people (in their commenter persona) take this kind of study so seriously and pretend that they must either live uncompromising teetotaling lives in pursuit of optimal and maximally long health, or that the study has to be nonsense/misleading.

In reality, all of us live lives that put at greater risk of this and lesser risk of that. The real value of learning that there's perhaps some association with one of our activities and a specific disease or other kind of harm is that we can be watchful of that disease or harm emerging in our own lives and thereby give ourselves more opportunity to respond. Or perhaps we might use it as reason to moderate, or to finally stop doing something we already feel conflicted about.

So this kind of thing is definitely interesting information for some people, but as often for HN, we can expect a lot of comments engaging with it only in extremes of condemnation or refutation.