Astounding Facts

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 4, 1906

MR. NELSON, the most distinguished of English actuaries, after long and careful investigations and comparisons, ascertained by actual experience the following astounding facts:—

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty, where ten total abstainers die, eighteen moderate drinkers die.

Between the ages of twenty and thirty, where ten total abstainers die, thirty-one moderate drinkers die.

Between the ages of thirty and forty, where ten total abstainers die, forty moderate drinkers die.

Or, expressing the fact in another form, he says:—

A total abstainer, twenty years old, has the chance of living forty-four years longer, or until sixty-four years old.

A moderate drinker has the chance of living fifteen and one-half years longer, or until thirty-five and one-half years old.

A total abstainer, forty years old, has the chance of living twenty-eight and one-fourth years longer, or until sixty-eight and one-half years old.

A moderate drinker, forty years old, has the chance of living eleven and two-thirds years longer, or until fifty-one and one-half years old.—Selected.