Featured Are teetotalers killing people?

From a resolution by the the Southern Baptist Convention, adopted with overwhelming support several years ago:

 

People never know when they start drinking whether or not they will become a drunkard and that is a fact, a sad fact.

Also I would note that though there are claims that alcohol in moderation may reduce the incidence of heart disease this claim is often followed by the statement, if you don't drink don't start.

Heart disease is primarily, I believe, a genetic disease. Everyone in my family has suffered from heart disease. Some imbibed, some didn't ,some have died from heart disease. I have fought heart disease for 17+ years. I have on occasion tried to develop a taste for red wine, the so-called miracle cure. Don't like it, don't like beer.

I am not going to preach total abstinence but frankly I am not going to advise anyone to start drinking. I don't think you should either!

 

If nothing else, this should tell you that Requiring teetotalism is not the way to go!