BMJ | 2019
Sixty seconds on . . . wine
Abstract
Not in France it seems, where health officials have risked civil unrest by launching a campaign to try and encourage people to limit their drinking to no more than two glasses of wine per day.\n\nIt’s true. The agency Sante Publique France estimates that around 10.5 million adults—almost a quarter of the country’s adult population—are regularly drinking too much. It says excessive alcohol consumption causes 41\u2009000 deaths a year, and …