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At age 112! She was the oldest woman in New Jersey.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Agn...21483.html

Apparently back in the 1940's a doctor recommended that she do it. It certainly seems to have worked in her case. I guess that doctors today are saying that moderate drinking can be downright good for you.
Prohibitionist: "But she might have lived to be 124 if she hadn't drank at all!"
I wonder if there's not some synergistic effect from combining the beer with the whisky.

On a sadder note, I learned yesterday that being lonely is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day!
So I have resolved to be less lonely. That or take up smoking.