At long last....the official advice is that alcohol is unsafe at any level...hopefully, within time, alcohol will become as socially unacceptable as smoking, and be seen for what it is..a poison
Western society, and in Britain especially, alcohol is so deeply embedded in culture, that anyone who questions this alcohol consumption is viewed with incredulity in most cases
Also, I hope this will quickly lead to sane policy on drinking and driving, i e make it unacceptable to drive with any amount of alcohol. Of course for practical reasons, the level will need to be set a small amount above zero, but the notion that as a society that we are wiling to accept 80 mg per litre of blood as safe will be viewed , with hindsight , for the insanity it represents
Simon