There are benefits in having a tipple

I’M sorry but Samuel Yesuiah cannot be allowed to get away with his scary imagination and unsubstantiated claims that bear only a passing acquaintance with the facts, “Drinking alcohol will slowly eat away at life” (The Star, Sept 23). He paints our dear country as if it is the worst kind of dystopia.

To put things into perspective, per capita (after removing the Muslim population) consumption of alcohol puts Malaysia at about No. 130 in the world. That’s quite a sobering fact.