Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1905 — Longevity and Liquor. [ARTICLE]

Longevity and Liquor.

It has come to lie generally recognized as a fact that the alcohol habit is one of the main factors in determining length of life. Figures furnished by insurance companies in England show that the average life of the total abstainer is nine years longer than that ol the drinker, and one of our own concerns in the same line of business, the Equitable, has published a statement to the effect that the dtaih rate among ‘‘moderate” cot sumers of liquor is twenty three per cent higher than teetotaleis. Some of the companies on both sides of the water, indeed, put abstainers in a separate class among their policy holders, making them a special allowance of five per cent, or moie“ on premiums.- Pearson’s Magazine.