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most people who are chronic alcoholics will develop this dreadful disease in their lifetime.

Answer 2- It is actually estimated that only 10-20% of chronic alcoholics will develop the disease over the course of more than a decade of heavy drinking due to the multitude of factors involved. Nutrition, age, sex, quantity of alcohol consumed, duration of alcohol consumption, etc., are all thought to play a role as is a biological predisposition to the detrimental effects of alcohol consumption.

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