Is there really a link between drinking alcohol and liver cirrhosis, or is it an exaggeration to warn against excessive drinking to the point of addiction?
I do not agree with you initially that exaggeration is a means of persuasion or a message that finds its way to a conscious human mind, let alone if used to warn about a danger related to human life. Consuming alcohol has a direct harmful effect on the liver and its cells even in a form that does not amount to addiction. Addiction is synonymous with liver failure in performing its functions and all its tasks, turning into a solid mass of fibers unrelated to the healthy liver whose cells mature with life in their natural form.

There are three successive stages that the liver of a person who consumes alcohol goes through:
 The first stage: begins with the deposition of fatty cells in the liver, known as alcoholic steatosis (alcoholic steatosis) or commonly known as (fatty liver), which is a phenomenon that may accompany other different pathological cases, but also occurs with the consumption of alcoholic beverages. It is a stage that can be treated with some liver stimulants, so the liver returns to its original healthy state completely.
 The second stage or alcoholic hepatitis stage: where liver cells become inflamed as a result of continued and regular alcohol consumption, and the person suffers from vague pain in the upper right part of the abdomen (the liver itself when it enlarges), some digestive problems such as constipation, diarrhea, loss of appetite, nausea, fatigue, lethargy, and possibly a fever without a clear cause. The appearance of redness in the palms or small spots on the face, neck, and chest is also common due to alcoholic hepatitis.
 The final stage: a stage that is difficult to treat as it ends with liver cirrhosis to the extent that it may require a new liver transplant. Its symptoms are very serious as they reach bloody vomiting, ascites (fluid accumulation in the abdomen), chronic diarrhea, and kidney failure, accompanied by an enlarged spleen whose function is related to that of the liver.
The possibility that cirrhosis coincides with cancer in liver tissues is always present, which makes matters more complicated.
I do not think the matter admits any degree of exaggeration, so do you share the opinion?