Derek Thompson

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The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Inside the Anti-Social Century — with Derek Thompson · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

solo drinking from 18 to 21, right?

That's really what the law is because what you're doing is you're allowing social drinking between 18 and 21.

It's a clever way of doing it.

I wanted to go back.

I just went back to the piece that I wrote about the latest research on moderate drinking.

This is an article on my Substack called, Is This the End of Booze?

And

Here's what the numbers say according to the most recent highest quality government survey.

At six drinks a week, so about one drink a day, it's hard for scientists to show any lifetime mortality risk.

It basically doesn't appear.

At nine drinks a week, a person incurs the lifetime mortality risk that is essentially the equivalent of driving for a lifetime.

So this is a risk that is real, but one that practically everybody lives with, right?

At 12 drinks a week, the alcohol habit becomes twice as dangerous as driving.

And at 14 drinks a week, which is, you know, two martinis a day, you know, two big drinks a day, you should think of yourself essentially as the same lifetime risk as being a logger, which is the most dangerous job in America.

There's a big difference between moderate drinking and, you know, having two drinks every single day, every single week.

for your entire life.

The former, it's hard for observational studies to show practically any lifetime mortality risk.

The latter, 14 drinks every single week until you die, that is the equivalent of the most dangerous job in America, which suggests that it's probably the riskiest habit

you will develop unless you are essentially a chain smoker.

So the amount matters, right?

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