An interesting investigation was conducted by the _Associated
Prohibition Press_ in April, 1909, as to the causes of death
in the city of Chicago of all men who had reached the age of
sixty years and over, and whose death was reported during that
month. Every death reported in Chicago during this month of
April was carefully investigated for the purpose of securing an
accurate memorandum of the age, nationality, and cause of death.
Out of 155 men concerning whose deaths this data was obtained,
it was found that 73 had been total abstainers, 75 moderate
drinkers, and 4 were said to be heavy drinkers. The age ranged
from 60 to 92 years.
On the basis of the facts secured in this investigation, the
drinking men, by their use of alcoholic poison, shortened their
lives nearly four years.
In the aggregate, therefore, by means of its subtle poison,
alcoholic liquor helped to deprive these 79 victims of a total
of more than 334 years of active life which their abstaining
contemporaries had lived to enjoy.--“American Prohibition
Yearbook.”
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=Abstinence as an Example=--See EXAMPLE.