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    As a millennial woman who goes on a jog most mornings; maintains a few no-alcohol nights per week; eats a balanced lunch hunched over at her desk; and currently has an unread email from herself

Is it normal to drink that much? Like I do it but I'd probably get sick.

I read the report. It's quite depressing. But if you check the tables and the projected values for various causes of death it seems like a lot of guesswork. Hypertension due to stress due to depression and whatnot. Fortunately I'm GenZ by about six months so I'm going to live forever.

Table 3 and Chart 1 are giving me it. Table 3 is showing roughly equivalent alcohol/drug abuse rates even in the bad projection and Chart 1 looks like they ran a curve of best fit to extrapolate sideways.