Drinking to go the way of smoking

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Bleeding Red

Buck-a-Beer in ON, Baby! (gotta keep the masses happy)

This is totally a policy I can get behind for any of the mass produced Canadian swill.

On no planet should Molson products be more than a dollar.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by you&me

"At all"?

That's not what that chart shows.

The chart shows average consumption per capita. That's independent of what percentage of people drink.

[Fuzz]

73 drinks a week? Every week? That can't be...

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

73 drinks a week? Every week? That can't be...

10% of adult Americans are crushing 10 drinks + every day. 24.5 million people.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

73 drinks a week? Every week? That can't be...

I know....how can they get by on so little?

Originally Posted by troutman

10% of adult Americans are crushing a six-pack every day. 24.5 million people.

Even still though, a 6-pack a day is only 42 drinks per week. You'd have to roughly drink a case a day to get near 73, granted you could skip a few here and there as a case of beer a day would be 84 drinks per week.

I think I'd get sick of it before the first week was done. I'm not 20 anymore.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by troutman

Alcohol spending calculator

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Those calculators don't go low enough to calculate my actual alcohol spending habits.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Again, two-thirds of the people in the world don't drink at all.

Sorry, did you post a source for this earlier?

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Sorry, did you post a source for this earlier?

The Guardian article linked in the OP.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

The Guardian article linked in the OP.

Interesting, I don’t know if that’s the correct conclusion to make, having looked at the data.

For example, both in the female and male categories it includes the age range “15-19,” which is abnormally low in comparison to the rest of the population. Why? Because of legal drinking ages across the world (the US, for example, would drag that number down as the number of current drinkers would be exceptionally low thanks to the legal age being 21).

What’s most telling is the average percentage across the age ranges in legal age. For women, that falls around 31%, for men it’s 55%.

Given that there is a +/- 7% error possibility, the prevelance of current drinkers in the world is really anywhere from 1/3 at a low, to just over 1/2 at a high.

I guess I don’t really have a conclusion other than the fact that “2/3 of the world doesn’t drink” isn’t really accurate, at least as a definitive statement.

[rotten42]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Again, two-thirds of the people in the world don't drink at all.

Apparently two-thirds of the people in the world are boring.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by cral12

This article highlights everything wrong with studies that make claims like this:

Is one drink per day really unsafe? That new alcohol study, explained. https://www.vox.com/science-and-heal...source=twitter via @voxdotcom

Excerpt:

"Over at the New York Times, Aaron Carroll did a great job of putting this risk into perspective. A 0.5 percent relative risk increase between no drinking and one-drink-a-day means four more people in 100,000 per year will experience an alcohol-related problem. Here’s Carroll:

For each set of 100,000 people who have one drink a day per year, 918 can expect to experience one of the 23 alcohol-related problems in any year. Of those who drink nothing, 914 can expect to experience a problem. ... At two drinks per day, the number experiencing a problem increased to 977. Even at five drinks per day, which most agree is too much, the vast majority of people are unaffected.

Put another way, statistician David Spiegelhalter estimated that 25,000 people would need to drink 400,000 bottles of gin to experience one extra health problem compared to non-drinkers, “which indicates a rather low level of harm in these occasional drinkers.”

Came here to post his Carroll’s article: https://theincidentaleconomist.com/w...lcohols-risks/