To be very concise, the drinking of alcohol causes a number of diseases the chief among them being Cirrhosis, Pancreatitis, Alcoholic Neuropathies, Psychosis, etc
Lifestyle habits, such as smoking, heavy alcohol use, and malnourishment
Addiction 100(4):550-559, 2005
He told the court: We have been trying at the bar to imagine whether we can think of any other group of legal or natural persons, terrorist suspects, arms dealers, Jews, in respect of whose evidence one might even begin to think that one could tenably say, Well, of course, in looking at this evidence I have been very careful because I know from the past that these people are a bit devious and a bit unworthy, and the only thing theyre really interested in is subverting public health. Yet last weeks judgment, running to 1,000 paragraphs, confirmed in excoriating detail just how determined big tobacco has been down the decades to achieve precisely this goal
Likewise, the effects of chemical intoxicants (alcohol, drugs, etc.) are quickly flushed from the system, compressing the effect to being very brief but very strong
