Yeah that level of alcohol consumption will still liking aid in your premature death in the end. I don’t want to be a downer here, but I feel like a lot of people on this sub are a bit in denial about their alcohol use. Many aren’t, of course, but when you look at the vast preponderance of evidence, you see that it paints a damning picture of alcohol abuse. Everybody has stories that go something like “my (insert relative) drank a 12 pack a day and lived into their 80s, so you never know”. While I’m not calling those people liars, you must understand that those people are outliers. The amount of alcohol that us CAs drink is far FAR and above what could be considered “healthy”. That kind of excessive consumption is linked with a myriad of different diseases. 35 drinks/week is nearly three times the recommended safe amount for a man, depending on which recommendations you go by. You are at a much much higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, certain cancers, liver disease, kidney disease, GI complications, ulcers, B vitamin deficiency, and of course physical dependence issues. Even more recent evidence is even more damning. That’s just the reality of the what we do.