Opinions - Alcohol consumption by nation. Where does your country rank?

[lulz]

Good work lads. B)

Alcohol

Drink up

Jun 12th 2007

From Economist.com

LUXEMBOURG glugs more than 15.5 litres of alcohol per person in a year, more than any other country. One explanation is that the duty on alcohol is relatively cheap in the tiny nation, encouraging booze tourism from its more heavily taxed neighbours. No such explanation for the Irish, however, who quaff 13.7 litres a year, according to the World Health Organisation. European countries, with their cultural acceptance of alcohol, tend to dominate the top places. In America, where stricter minumum-age requirements apply, the average person drinks 8.6 litres a year.
AFP

[podge]

It's a wonder that anybody Irish can afford to get pissed it's so fucking expensive over here. We dont seem to care though do we ? lol.

[lulz]

It's the same with weed though, isn't it? The only nationalities that I've found to smoke more than Irish (when you're just looking at those who smoke) are black. And this is despite the fact that our country generally has the worst quality of hash I have ever come across.

[podge]

Ireland has quite a large cannabis culture alright and it's growing very fast, seems most people fog here these days. Or most people swim meets anyway.lol.

Apparently soapbar is still around alright, but swim hasnt seen it in over a year id say. Most people have upgraded to green at this stage.

[Mint boi]

yay ireland! we need to make a push to make it to the top though

[Diapuch]

Atleast Australia beat the yanks...

[entheo]

Originally Posted by Diapuch

At least Australia beat the yanks...

not hard to do, remember that joke about American beer?

Why is American beer like making love in a canoe?
They're both f*cking close to water!

[neurosis]

I wonder if that includes underage drinking in the US? That could probably knock them up a few ranks.

[Psych0naut]

Underage drinking probaply isn't accounted for, but in every country there's plenty of that.

[Wflash]

Aw come on! If they'd seperated us Scots out of the UK figure we'd have been further up that list.

Much further.

[~lostgurl~]

From the link above:

Alcohol - Drink up

Jun 12th 2007
From Economist.com

LUXEMBOURG glugs more than 15.5 litres of alcohol per person in a year, more than any other country. One explanation is that the duty on alcohol is relatively cheap in the tiny nation, encouraging booze tourism from its more heavily taxed neighbours. No such explanation for the Irish, however, who quaff 13.7 litres a year, according to the World Health Organisation. European countries, with their cultural acceptance of alcohol, tend to dominate the top places. In America, where stricter minumum-age requirements apply, the average person drinks 8.6 litres a year.

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http://economist.com/daily/chartgall...ory_id=9325487

[motorhead]

They didnt put Canada on the chart, eh? What a bunch of hosers.

[ninjasword71]

I was also hoping for Canada...I wonder how it ranks with the good old Canadian Leaf?

[lexmark]

Originally Posted by motorhead

They didnt put Canada on the chart, eh? What a bunch of hosers.

who cares, its quality not quantity that counts, let them drink themselves stupid while we sip on a good tasting bottled canadian brew


Ooooo canada!! our home and naitive land....true something something in all our sons comand...ahh fuk it, i forget.

[Hadean]

Wow, I'm rather suprised the US is so low down there. I would've put us near the top, considering how many alcoholic adults (and heavy drinking college kids) there are around here. My friends can also put away quite a bit of brew. Must be because there is nothing better to do here in this crappy county than get drunk and stoned. As many heavy drinkers as there are here, I suppose we also have more than our fair share of tea-totallers that bring the average down.

[enquirewithin]

On a more serious note the WHO tells us:

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are about 2 billion people worldwide consuming alcoholic beverages and 76.3 million with diagnosed alcohol use disorders. From a public health perspective, the global burden of alcohol, both in terms of morbidity and mortality, is considerable; alcohol consumption causes 3.2% of deaths (1.8 million) and 4.0% of Disability-Adjusted Life Years (58.3 million). Overall, there are causal relationships between alcohol consumption and more than 60 types of disease and injury.

http://www.who.int/bookorders/anglai...=15&codcch=564

[Coconut]

LUXEMBOURG?! How can Luxembourg possibly compare to the Irish when it comes to drunken rowdiness? This is unacceptable. That does it. I'm to buy out all the stock in my local off-licence. That should boost our numbers a bit.

[Stiney]

lol second to Luxemberg again in a survey. I've also seen Luxemberg 1 Ireland 2 in surveys on rate of economic growth, average wage, cost of living, rise in cocaine use, I wonder whats the common factor?

[Joe Duffy]

Originally Posted by Stiney

I wonder whats the common factor?

They are both predominately Catholic countries.

[FrankenChrist]

Originally Posted by Stiney

lol second to Luxemberg again in a survey. I've also seen Luxemberg 1 Ireland 2 in surveys on rate of economic growth, average wage, cost of living, rise in cocaine use, I wonder whats the common factor?

It's a financial centre and major tax haven for all surrouncing countries, which are all bigger economies. However, evading taxes is not as easy anymore because Luxemburg has to comply with EU regulations - one of the reasons Switzerland won't join anytime soon.

[curiousnoob]

Swim thought the UK would have been higher....... Moldova

[Nature Boy]

In both nations people tend to wipe their asses with toilet paper also. I think that may be a huge contributing factor. Certainly moreso than Catholicism.

[Joe Duffy]

Or maybe is has something to do with both countries having island status.

[Nature Boy]

Originally Posted by Joe Duffy

Or maybe is has something to do with both countries having island status.

Luxembourg has island status?!

[satinhide]

swim says,

"Damn, Antarctica NEVER makes any lists!!!"

No, but seriously folks---------> the u.s.a. isn't ranked first because they treat their alcys with crack cocaine and heroin tincture!! MOST EFFECTIVE!!!!!!