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lazide06/16/20251 replyview on HN

Having a glass of wine a day is extremely unlikely to cause any detectable negative health outcomes.

Replace the alcohol in that wine with benzene (21ml/glass give or take), and it would not play out the same way.


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schneehertz06/17/2025

The LD50 of benzene is 980 mg/kg; drinking that much benzene every day would undoubtedly be fatal