Re:Americans drink so much, it's now a 'public health crisis'
by philiphodgen on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @09:51AM
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Perhaps the article says more about the publisher — and journalistic practices generally — than it says about the Great Americans Drinking Public.
A quick look finds this throughly unscientific statistic:
> In 1790, United States government figures showed that annual per-capita alcohol consumption for everybody over fifteen amounted to thirty-four gallons of beer and cider, five gallons of distilled spirits, and one gallon of wine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_c...
A quick look finds this throughly unscientific statistic:
> In 1790, United States government figures showed that annual per-capita alcohol consumption for everybody over fifteen amounted to thirty-four gallons of beer and cider, five gallons of distilled spirits, and one gallon of wine.
http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Holiday07/drink.cf...
People who keep yelling “Scary Monsters Under the Bed” can be ignored.