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Post by motorist on Jan 3, 2010 10:24:05 GMT
In my searches, I think I found that the most commonly drunk alcohol was Heineken and Budweiser. Most of this is brewed in Holland, so even the Dutch could be suspect lol!
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Post by Ben Lomond on Jan 4, 2010 12:58:10 GMT
Luxembourg? ?
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Post by beth on Jan 4, 2010 15:03:13 GMT
What!??!? Is that a guess, Ben? or a declaration? or just a wild exclamation?
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 4, 2010 18:43:04 GMT
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Post by beth on Jan 4, 2010 19:59:19 GMT
Ooooh look at that. Ireland is #2. Have to try harder?
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Post by mikemarshall on Jan 4, 2010 20:18:11 GMT
From my experience of having lived in South London for a number of years, I would like to suggest that the answer might possibly be the Poles!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 4, 2010 20:35:47 GMT
From my experience of having lived in South London for a number of years, I would like to suggest that the answer might possibly be the Poles! I know my thread says "Nationality" on it, but the study concerns a particular nation. We have a lot of Poles and part Polish, etc..in the US and elsewhere. If i wrote a thread entitled "Which Nation consumes the most Gasoline?" instead of "Which Nationality.." we'd only be thinking about total consumption. I'll rename this thread if someone can fit; "In Which Nation Do the Inhabitants have the highest average pro person yearly of Alcohol Consumption", into a thread title! ;D Of course W.H.O.'s answer is not above question.
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Post by motorist on Jan 4, 2010 20:56:19 GMT
Something interesting I found that might show the Luxembourg result was skewed: Studies show that the country Luxembourg consumes the most alcohol per capita, according to Guinness World Records 2008. In the year 2003, on average 2.8 gallons (12.6 litres) of pure alcohol was purchased per citizen. This however is a statistical phenomenon, not actual, as the low taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and petrol in Luxembourg mean that Belgians, French and Germans living close to the border buy these products in Luxembourg, and increase the sales without being counted as consumers in the statistical analyses.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuxembourgCitation is still needed for that part, though, so maybe there's a better source somewhere?
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 4, 2010 21:06:26 GMT
Something interesting I found that might show the Luxembourg result was skewed: Studies show that the country Luxembourg consumes the most alcohol per capita, according to Guinness World Records 2008. In the year 2003, on average 2.8 gallons (12.6 litres) of pure alcohol was purchased per citizen. This however is a statistical phenomenon, not actual, as the low taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and petrol in Luxembourg mean that Belgians, French and Germans living close to the border buy these products in Luxembourg, and increase the sales without being counted as consumers in the statistical analyses.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuxembourgCitation is still needed for that part, though, so maybe there's a better source somewhere? Yes! I used to live near the Dutch border and prices where better in the Netherlands than in Germany. Guiness probably doesn't have the sources of information that WHO does worldwide. As i mentioned earlier there are a handfull of nations where the inhabitants consume yearly on average more than 15 liters of pure alcohol. In Luxembourg we have average inhabitant minus the visitors from neighboring countries purchasing less than 12.6 liters.
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Post by jean on Jan 4, 2010 21:12:11 GMT
From my experience of having lived in South London for a number of years, I would like to suggest that the answer might possibly be the Poles! That's probably because they are so miserable to be away from home! Actually Polish drinking habits are quite strange. Some people drink a great deal, but they tend to do it very quietly and when drunk they crumple up in gutters or on tram tracks and get run over by trams. The only people I ever saw being noisily drunk were visiting Scandinavians. And very large numbers of people - a far higher proportion I'd say than in the UK - don't drink at all. I was invited to a party one Christmas and wondered whether I should take a bottle of wine as I might have done here. Fortunately I didn't, as we drank tea and orange juice.
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 4, 2010 21:43:24 GMT
I never had the impression that Poles living in the US and Americans of Polish descent were heavy drinkers.
Of course the statistics of the WHO study refer to alcohol consumption within the borders of a nation. As Motorist rightly pointed out Luxembourg got a bad rap because so many foreign visitors purchased alcohol within their country and then consumed it in a neighboring country.
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 7, 2010 10:11:33 GMT
Has everyone giving up on this question? The nation sited as having the highest yearly average of alcohol consumption per inhabitant was first given this destinction in 2003 by the World Health Organisation! A number of other countries in that year had the dubious destintion of an average alcohol consumption of over 15 liters per person of pure alcohol yearly, but in 2008 their consumption rates were considerably less for the most part. Feel free to google the answer up!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2010 10:20:25 GMT
Well, you have given a hint that it is not in Europe; I did find Luxembourg by googling but that obviously isn't the right answer.
So I'm going to opt for Greenland. I believe the inhabitants do drink a lot of alcohol...and who can blame them?
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 7, 2010 10:34:32 GMT
Well, you have given a hint that it is not in Europe; I did find Luxembourg by googling but that obviously isn't the right answer. So I'm going to opt for Greenland. I believe the inhabitants do drink a lot of alcohol...and who can blame them? An interesting guess! I believe though that Greenland belongs to Denmark and isn't an independent nation. The study is restricted to independent self governing nations!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2010 10:54:36 GMT
Oh - I don't know then! Perhaps somewhere in Africa. Probably not Zimbabwe because no-one can afford to eat there, let alone drink. A wild guess....Gambia.
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 8, 2010 4:21:27 GMT
Oh - I don't know then! Perhaps somewhere in Africa. Probably not Zimbabwe because no-one can afford to eat there, let alone drink. A wild guess....Gambia. Gambia??..No, but..Warm...Warmer!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2010 8:12:31 GMT
Well, I regretted my Gambia guess as soon as I had said it, because of the Muslim influence there. For some reason Tonga was floating aroud in my mind right from the beginning, but again with no logic at all.
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Post by motorist on Jan 8, 2010 10:57:46 GMT
I still don't know. On a side note, I was pondering which one drinks the least, and I might say Saudi Arabia, as I think alcohol is illegal there
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 8, 2010 16:02:54 GMT
Well, I regretted my Gambia guess as soon as I had said it, because of the Muslim influence there. For some reason Tonga was floating aroud in my mind right from the beginning, but again with no logic at all. Tonga or Togo?? No! Quite True the Muslim African nations are not supportive of alcohol consumption!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 8, 2010 16:06:43 GMT
I still don't know. On a side note, I was pondering which one drinks the least, and I might say Saudi Arabia, as I think alcohol is illegal there Saudi Arabia is listed as 0 liters of alcohol consumption yearly per inhabitant-that is less than 1 liter in reality. You are publicly whipped by the Saudis, if you're caught violating their alcohol prohibition law.
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