We drink a quarter more alcohol than the rest of the country
Scots are booziest in Britain
By Campbell hic! Gunn
SCOTS consume 25 per cent more alcohol per head than drinkers across the rest of Britain.
The average adult now drinks the equivalent of nearly 540 pints of beer or 46 bottles of vodka a year.
Startling new figures to be published today show that the 50.5 million litres of pure alcohol sold in Scotland in 2009 was enough for every drinker over 18 to exceed the weekly male drinking guidelines every week. The figures also suggest Scots are out-drinking their counterparts in the rest of Britain by an average of two-and-a-half pints or large glasses of wine per week.
EASY! for the old SCOTLAND! We've showed those SOFT SOUTHERN POOOOFTERS! WEARRAPEEPEL! Shove your MINIMUM PRICING UP YOUR BIG FAT LARDARSE SALMOND! CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER, HERE WE COME! You don't see us FALLING ABOUT PISHED AND FIGHTING!
Well not unless you work in A&E, you don't.
SOME of the most deprived parts of Glasgow have an alcohol related death rate more than five times the UK average, official figures show. The figures show five city constituencies in the 10 highest for drink related deaths. Shettleston, which includes much of the East End, is the worst in Scotland, with 76 deaths per 100,000 population. Across the UK it is 13.3. Maryhill is more than four times the UK rate while Springburn, Baillieston and Govan are also in the 10 worst.
Only nine constituencies in Scotland were below the UK average, with Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, in the Borders, the lowest at just four per 100,000 people.
The 10 highest as a percentage of UK average were: Shettleston 574; Maryhill 420; Greenock/Inverclyde 371; Dundee East 347; Springburn 333; Baillieston 331; Cathcart 292; Govan 289; Paisley 288; Hamilton N/ Bellshill 285.Evidence in my estimation that something must be done soon to stop ridiculously high percentage of our citizens from dying from the bevvy. If that means squeezing the price of cheap Cider and Alcopops, then that's what we must do. Youngsters are getting hooked on this cheap drink and when you mix it with drugs it becomes a lethal combination. I know BTW because I drunk like a fish for 36 years and I am regretting it now!It's time we gave people hope and some light at the end of the tunnel in their lives so that they DON'T HAVE TO WASTE THEMSELVES GETTING PISHED OUT OF THEIR BRAINS EVERY DAY!
