Bill Ralston: Alcohol and risk-taking

By Bill Ralston In Life

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11th August, 2012
When contemplating the many things in life that may kill, maim or incapacitate me, it seems alcohol may be the greatest risk. Cars, smoking, gluttony and weird things falling from the sky are an ever-present hazard, but booze is probably the most likely reason for fate to pay me a visit. The other risk factors, with the exception of tobacco, are random killers that will do you in by chance. By contrast, drink is almost guaranteed to wreck you because it suspends the rational part of your brain and allows you to start playing Russian roulette with life in a ...

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