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If you don't drink, should you start for health reasons? And if you drink only occasionally, will you be healthier if you start drinking every day? Read More

Define 'non-drinkers'

I think in any of these studies that involve non-drinkers, it should be important to state if these are people who have NEVER drunk, or who used to drink but no longer (who may have been heavy drinkers). I feel that lumping never-drinkers in with ex-alcoholics skews the statistics.

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Jay Dixit is a science writer based in New York.

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