Originally Posted by
Hodd 
But imagine if they published figures saying after X beers a day for Y years, you could get liver disease. Again, that’d a green light for drinkers to have X-1 beers a day! I’m always wary when someone asks how much I drank. What can they do with that information?
One weakness of information is in how we interpret it. I recall embracing the "I'm not that bad yet" reason to keep on drinking. Someone holds a big red flag saying, "I got liver disease after drinking for 40 years," and we think, "Oh good. I can drink for another 24 years. We read into information what we want to hear, not what we need to know.