Alcohol's bad for you ! maybe not

Higher usual alcohol consumption was associated with a lower 41-y mortality risk from coronary artery disease in men independent of genetic and common environmental factors: the prospective NHLBI Twin Study
 
Consistent with prior studies of men in the United States (2), we found that alcohol consumed from beer at baseline and cumulatively tended to be inversely associated with CAD risk, whereas a similar association was found for either baseline wine or average spirit consumption. Therefore, our results generally support the hypothesis that total ethanol per se plays the dominant role in CAD

Full study here: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/102/1/31.full.pdf