A record low number of Americans are drinking, according to a new Gallup poll released this week. Just 54% of Americans said they consume alcohol at all.

Gallup has been tracking Americans’ drinking behavior since 1939, and their views of the health implications of drinking since 2001. For the first time, a majority of Americans – 53% – said that moderate drinking, defined as one or two drinks per day, is bad for your health.

“This is a message that those of us in public health have been advocating for a long time,” said Dr. Katherine Keyes, an epidemiologist at Columbia University who studies trends in alcohol consumption. “And so it’s certainly heartening to see that that message is really seems to be penetrating in the American public.”

Even among people who do drink, the poll foun

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