In response to your question, I quote from a recent study of 316000 participants of the UK Biobank which I think you will find interesting:

"In this prospective cohort study of 316,627 current drinkers from the UK Biobank, we found that healthy drinking habits (regular drinking and drinking with meal), as estimated by DHS, were associated with lower risks of all-cause mortality and cause-specific mortality independent of amount of alcohol consumed. Reporting for the first time, we found that drinking habits significantly modified the relations between the actual amounts of alcohol intake and risk of all-cause mortality, while no interaction was observed between drinking habits and genetically determined alcohol intake levels. Similar interaction patterns were observed for cause-specific mortality."

You'll find the study if you follow the doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.06.054

And what goes for Brits goes for Americans, too:

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.06.054