niedziela, czerwca 12, 2005

Live by the Bottle, Die by the Dozens: Will Beer Save the Republic?

Poland's neighbors are rarely sober it seems. But if its economic (and political) woes continue, is Poland next?


Vodka lovers: Some 85 percent of Russian men drink regularly — they outnumber female drinkers by 5 to 1 — and on average they drink a fifth of vodka every other day.

The average Russian man, in large part due to alcohol abuse, won't make it to his 59th birthday. Not surprisingly, alcohol poisoning has its own category in the government's cause-of-death charts.

A startling 34 percent of all deaths in Russia over the last decade — from murders and heart attacks to suicides and traffic accidents — were related to alcohol, said Nemtsov. The comparable figure for the United States in 1996 was 3.2 percent, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Link to full article HERE

Has the beer drinking culture been a blessing in aluminum disguise for Poland? Excuse me while I reach for my 'knight in shining, recyclable, armor."

posted by ~JS @ 7:00 PM 

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