【英语阅读】经济学人 | 酒类公司提倡适度饮酒，但这会毁了它们

Alcohol and health
酒精和健康

A sober brawl
清醒的打击

• sober adj.冷静的,清醒的 vt.使严肃;使醒酒,使清醒
• brawl n.喧闹,斗殴,闹事 v.打斗,闹事,大声吵闹

Alcohol firms promote moderate drinking, but it would ruin them
酒类公司提倡适度饮酒，但这会毁了它们

• promote vt.促进;提升;推销;发扬
• moderate adj.稳健的,温和的;适度的,中等的;有节制的 vi.变缓和,变弱
• ruin n.毁灭,毁坏 v.破坏,糟蹋;毁灭

OF ALL THE substances people intoxicate themselves with, alcohol is the least restricted and causes the most harm. Many illegal drugs are more dangerous to those who use them, but are relatively hard to obtain, which limits their impact. In contrast, alcohol is omnipresent, so far more people suffer from its adverse effects. In 2010 a group of drug experts scored the total harm in Britain caused by 20 common intoxicants and concluded that alcohol inflicted the greatest cost, mostly because of the damage it does to non-consumers such as the victims of drunk drivers.<