A pint is seen on a table in a pub in London January 4, 2011. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
Alcohol Seen Killing 200,000 Britons In Next 20 Years -- Yahoo News/Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Up to 210,000 people in England and Wales will be killed prematurely by alcohol over the next 20 years, with a third of those preventable deaths due to liver disease alone, health experts warned Monday.
Other alcohol-related deaths will be due to accidents, violence and suicide, or from chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, strokes, heart disease and cancer, the experts warned in a projection study in the Lancet medical journal.
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My Comment: My rule of thumb is simple .... always drink in moderation.
