The belief that moderate consumption alcohol isn't just harmless, but in fact beneficial to your health, is extremely widespread in my personal experience. It's past time to change that if the science disagrees.

And you're right, risks are all about trade-offs and how you implement that advice into your own life is entirely up to you. Crucially, they're not making recommendations to make anyone feel better about their harmful decisions, they're making them to help people make informed decisions.