Is it normal to drink that much? Like I do it but I'd probably get sick. I read the report. It's quite depressing. But if you check the tables and the projected values for various causes of death it seems like a lot of guesswork. Hypertension due to stress due to depression and whatnot. Fortunately I'm GenZ by about six months so I'm going to live forever. Table 3 and Chart 1 are giving me it. Table 3 is showing roughly equivalent alcohol/drug abuse rates even in the bad projection and Chart 1 looks like they ran a curve of best fit to extrapolate sideways.As a millennial woman who goes on a jog most mornings; maintains a few no-alcohol nights per week; eats a balanced lunch hunched over at her desk; and currently has an unread email from herself
I've never found a "normal" for alcohol consumption. My dad drank a 12-pack of Coors Light a day for most of my life (yes, I also presumed he really liked peeing). My father-in-law probably drinks a beer a week. A bender for me is 3 beers... or half a bottle of bourbon. I knew two guys in college who both drank a sixer a night. One of them was unwavering. The other was in AA meetings by spring quarter. I agree with you, by the way - their methodology for assembling their data is unclear.