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An AQI of 250 plus is equivalent to 7 cigarettes a day: https://woods.stanford.edu/news/health-impacts-wildfire-smok... .
It depends how much time you spend outside? I’m just thinking back to my days in Beijing when 250 PPI was not a bad day.
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Driving cars and riding in cars tend to have large benefits whereas alcohol does not.
Source?
"Randomized placebo-controlled study of the benefits of personal mobility", Stravro and Chunk, 1999.
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Driving cars and riding in cars tend to have large benefits whereas alcohol does not.
Alcohol can have large benefits for helping people to bond and socialize. The article itself pointed this out. Of course people can socialize without alcohol. But I think it's plausible to argue that alcohol in moderation can improve and deepen the experience.
Also if I go drinking with someone I don't know well, the risk of their becoming violent is quite high.
At the army, I remember a doctor insisting on a very precise answer to the question if I was drinking alcohol "never" or "rarely". for coffee it's probably very similar we say "the dose makes the poison" but it doesn't change that regularly drinking a low dose of poison is not good.
I'm reasonably sure that regular drinking of water at non-toxic doses is good though.
So it really does depend.
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There are also non-narcotic anxiolytics that don't lower your inhibitions. That was the ultimate solution I found for myself.
Propranolol, I assume? Much safer than alcohol and very good at reducing social anxiety/stage fright in my experience.
I'm amazed that this is still an ongoing discussion. All of these "studies" have been distracting with muddied data from a very simple, unambiguous scientific fact: alcohol is a poison. By its immediate biological effects, it literally is a poison. And you shouldn't drink poison. Decades of studies rationalizing that "actually, people who drink two glasses of wine a day live longer" and their ilk, have only ever dist…
They never include the mental benefits of alcohol. A night out drinking with friends or coworkers has mental health benefits that last, sometimes a lifetime.
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Alcohol can have large benefits for helping people to bond and socialize. The article itself pointed this out. Of course people can socialize without alcohol. But I think it's plausible to argue that alcohol in moderation can improve and deepen the experience.
OK good point, but MDMA is much better for that according to many comment here on HN over the years. Also if I go drinking with someone I don't know well, the risk of their becoming violent is quite high.
Alcohol happens to have 10,000 years of cultural tradition behind it. Plus, it pairs well with food.
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In your experience, is the alcohol required to enjoy the night out? I've personally had nights out with and without alcohol that were just as much fun. I'm also very much a homebody though, so I'm not a great sample to really say either way.
It’s not required, but so much of socializing and the existence of various “third places” hinges on alcohol that the choice is “do something social centered on drinking” or “do nothing”. You can’t expect people to single handedly overturn the social systems that have intertwined alcohol and socialization (especially for men)
In the 90s I remember the '1 or 2 glasses of wine a day is good for you' message was common knowledge but now appears to be propoganda. I always that it was strange at the time and nowadays that myth has been thoroughly debunked. I am no longer a partaker but I wonder what is unique about alcohol that triggers people to come out of the woodwork with whataboutism and messenger attacks to defend its' usage? In this thr…
People - and animals - just want to get fucked up. You can see this when animals get into fermented fruit. So there's been plenty of time for alcohol to get very entrenched in human culture.