Moderate drinking leads to long life?

An interesting new study has this to say:
"abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers."

Even when they took out those of us in AA and tried to remove the other variables like socio-economic status, they still came out with the same results: drinkers live longer. Of course, moderate drinkers live the longest, and the rate of mortality between heavy users and non users isn't too far apart. Like 8%.

If only we could all be moderate drinkers.