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| The Washington Post’s Wonkblog has a great piece up today about American alcohol consumption patterns. In particular, they include this graph, which illustrates two things very clearly:
First, almost all Americans have a healthy relationship to alcohol. Second, a minority have a really unhealthy relationship. Seventy percent of the population barely even drink. Even looking at the 81-90th percentile, that group consumes just a bit more than two drinks a day. (For men, two drinks a day is actually–if inconclusively–associated with positive health outcomes.) But then we get to that last decile. People in that group consume over 10 drinks a day–or three times as much as the bottom 90% combined. This is the dark side of alcohol, and one those of us who make or write about booze should consider seriously. The great majority of the alcohol consumed in the US–and I think this trend is typical worldwide–is being consumed by just a few people, probably all of them alcoholics by any def … |
Source: Beervana
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