{"id":33979,"date":"2015-12-29T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33979"},"modified":"2015-12-18T14:14:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T19:14:35","slug":"qotd-the-health-benefits-of-moderate-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/29\/qotd-the-health-benefits-of-moderate-drinking\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The health benefits of moderate drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Should we consider mandatory graphic warning labels on bottles of booze? Our science reporter Tom Blackwell reviewed various Canadian discussions of the idea in these pages yesterday, suggesting that it is being looked at behind the scenes by addiction researchers. Labels with colour images of diseased esophagi on liquor labels would, of course, mimic the approach Canada has already taken toward cigarettes. So, well, why not? They say if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail: by a similar token, if your field is addiction, no doubt everything that has addictive qualities looks like an unsolved problem.<\/p>\n<p>But there is one very obvious way in which liquor is not like cigarettes: scientists are reasonably sure that light drinking has positive public-health consequences. If you don\u2019t believe me, you can look up articles like the one I have in front of me here from a 2013 issue of <em>Annals of Oncology<\/em>: its title is \u201cLight Drinking Has Positive Public Health Consequences.\u201d As a layman I obviously can\u2019t be certain I have summarized this editorial correctly, but you\u2019ll have to trust me.<\/p>\n<p>Colby Cosh, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/the-problem-with-liquor-warning-labels-theres-such-a-thing-as-good-drinking\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The real problem with liquor warning labels \u2014 there\u2019s such a thing as good drinking&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2015-12-17.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should we consider mandatory graphic warning labels on bottles of booze? Our science reporter Tom Blackwell reviewed various Canadian discussions of the idea in these pages yesterday, suggesting that it is being looked at behind the scenes by addiction researchers. Labels with colour images of diseased esophagi on liquor labels would, of course, mimic the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,66,9,41,131],"tags":[59,104,244],"class_list":["post-33979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-health-science","category-law","category-quotations","category-wine","tag-addiction","tag-booze","tag-publichealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Q3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33980,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33979\/revisions\/33980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}