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This was a prospective study that looked at lifelong abstainers, not people who gave up drinking. Furthermore, reduced overall mortality was found in light/moderate drinkers even after excluding participants with pre-existing conditions.
That's the correct way to control for the issue you raised.
From a statistical design perspective, that was a really well done analysis.