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Alcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens more
(hsph.harvard.edu)
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Back when life expectancy was 45.
Popular misconception.
There were a lot of people who never made it out of childhood, which skews the average down.
But if you made it to adulthood, you had a pretty good chance of making it to 65 or so.
That's how averages work. Math.