Alcohol can be beneficial in terms of it being a "social glue" whether you personally believe it or not. Within reason is fine, and won't make you an alcoholic. So that doesn't fit the counter examples.
Of course there's happiness benefits to it in social settings, not disputing that. Just saying that, in a vacuum, any amount of alcohol is harmful to the human body. The "1 glass of red wine per day" is BS.
