Another Example of Stereotypes Saving Time

Russians like to drink? Yes they do.

Russians currently consume almost twice the global average, the equivalent of 6.2 liters of pure ethanol alcohol per year, the global report found.

A new study by an international team of public health researchers documents the devastating impact of alcohol abuse on Russia - showing that drinking caused more than half of the deaths among Russians aged 15 to 54 in the turbulent era following the Soviet collapse.
The 52 percent figure is compared with estimates that less than 4 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by alcohol abuse, according to the study by Russian, British and French researchers published in Friday's edition of the British medical journal The Lancet.