On average, Australians down 773 standard drinks a year - the equivalent of 703 pots of beer, 552 stubbies, 93 bottles of wine or 39 bottles of spirits.
On average, each Australian drinks 9.8 litres of pure alcohol a year - more than Americans (8.4 litres), Canadians (8 litres), Swedes (6.6 litres) and Norwegians (6.4 litres).
If the average intake could be cut to 6.4 litres - about 505 standard drinks, or 459 pots - more than 380 deaths would be avoided each year.
The report also looked at smoking:
If the 23 per cent smoking rate were cut to 15 per cent, up to 5000 Australian lives would be saved every year, as well as 158,000 fewer new cases of tobacco-caused illness.
There would be almost $1 billion in economic benefits with the achievable smoking cuts, the report found.
There are comments attached to the story:
This is a nation of alcoholics. The problem is that the Australian male defines his masculinity on how much he can drink. Cultural catastrophe. As sick & angry country. Posted by: R. McIntosh of Melbourne 12:53am today
Australians love to yabber on about how we live in a free country. It's articles like this that show that many Australians don't want to live in a free country, they want to live in a fascist country. Posted by: Jaxtapose of Sydney 1:47am today
And similarly:
If anybody could possibly explain why Australians would prefer to live in a fascist country because of articles like this........ (@ Jaxtapose) Posted by: Dee of Far North QLD 3:58am today
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