Show temperance topics topic the only way to settle the question of the influence of alcohol on longevity ig ie to compare a large number of life teetotalers tee with an equal number of moderate drinkers it Is evident that many years must delapas before thle this to la possible but meanwhile we have valuable evidence to show which way this will probably come out professor humphrey in 1888 reported report sd on the habits of 24 old people of these 2 6 per cent took over two pints a day 21 6 per cent took from one to two pints 40 per cent took under one pint and 86 per cert were abstainers abstain ers this latter figure shows an astounding large proportion of abstainers abstain ers consid erint erine that total abstinence wa not at all common at the beginning of th the century even now the abstainers abstain ers ar are not one third of the adults of all ago ages yet they were more than one third of those over 80 90 medical temperance Tamper anoe review |