Alcohol kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide

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Alcohol kills 3.3 million people worldwide each year, more than AIDS, tuberculosis and violence combined, the World Health Organization said Monday, warning that booze consumption was on the rise.

Including drunk driving, alcohol-induced violence and abuse, and a multitude of diseases and disorders, alcohol causes one in 20 deaths globally every year, the UN health agency said.

"This actually translates into one death every 10 seconds," Shekhar Saxena, who heads the WHO's Mental Health and Substance Abuse department, told reporters in Geneva.

Alcohol caused some 3.3 million deaths in 2012, WHO said, equivalent to 5.9 percent of global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women).

In comparison, HIV/AIDS is responsible for 2.8 percent, tuberculosis causes 1.7 percent of deaths and violence is responsible for just 0.9 percent, the study showed.

More people in countries where alcohol consumption has traditionally been low, like China and India, are also increasingly taking up the habit as their wealth increases, it said.

"More needs to be done to protect populations from the negative health consequences of alcohol consumption," Oleg Chestnov of the WHO's Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health unit said in a statement launching a massive report on global alcohol consumption and its impact on public health.

Drinking is linked to more than 200 health conditions, including liver cirrhosis and some cancers. Alcohol abuse also makes people more susceptible to infectious diseases like tuberculosis, HIV and pneumonia, the report found.

Most deaths attributed to alcohol, around a third, are caused by associated cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.

Alcohol-related accidents, such as car crashes, were the second-highest killer, accounting for around 17.1 percent of all alcohol-related deaths.

Binge drinking is especially damaging to health, the WHO pointed out, estimating that 16 percent of the world's drinkers abuse alcohol to excess.

While people in the world's wealthiest nations, in Europe and the Americas especially, are boozier than people in poorer countries, rising wealth in emerging economies is also driving up alcohol consumption.

Drinking in populous China and India is rising particularly fast as people earn more money, the WHO said, warning that the average annual intake in China was likely to swell by 1.5 litres of pure alcohol by 2025.

Still, Eastern Europe and Russia are home to the world's biggest drinkers.

Russian men who drink consumed an average of 32 litres of pure alcohol a year, according to 2010 statistics, followed by other Western countries including Europe, Canada, the United States, Australia and South Africa.

On average, every person above the age of 15 worldwide drinks 6.2 litres of pure alcohol in a year, according to the report.

Counting only those who drink though, that rises to 17 litres of pure alcohol each year.

But far from everyone indulges. Nearly half of all adults worldwide have never touched alcohol, and nearly 62 percent say they have not touched a drink in the past year, the report showed.

Abstinence especially among women, is most common in low-income countries, while religious belief and social norms mean many Muslim countries are virtually alcohol free.

[APOLLO STASH]

there's a cure for this epidemic. contains two elements, both are complex chemicals derived from the basic human brain.

they used to be popular remedies in the mid 60's then people somehow grew immune to them.

today's scientists are figuring out how to make this cure effective in humans again.

it's called MODERATION AND CONSIDERATION.

[Guarded By Martyrs]

So can anyone tell me why Marijuana isn't sold like this children?

Anybody....No?

Ask Jerry Sienfeld where we live, he'll tell you.

[TSA]

Alcohol being bad doesn't make marijuana good, that's a logical fallacy.
They're both two useless things humans use to cope with their own weaknesses synthetically. Also, of all the drug addicts in the world, marijuana smokers are easily the most annoying. Heroine and crack users just keep it to themselves. Marijuana addicts are the only ones that swear it's a religion, lifestyle, apparel choice, political ideology, life mission, etc etc. They're the Ron Paul voters of drug addicts.

If you smoke weed just shut the fuck up and smoke weed, nobody cares. nobody. at all. nobody cares.

alcohol is horrible, but so is marijuana. I've seen marijuana make vibrant people turn into vegatables on a consistent basis. I've seen the way it makes people obsess over it and justify their addiction and obsession. A marijuana addict is still more inclined to smoke more frequently than a cocaine addict and they're on par with alcoholics.

[cj wisty]

Alcohol being bad doesn't make marijuana good, that's a logical fallacy.
They're both two useless things humans use to cope with their own weaknesses synthetically. Also, of all the drug addicts in the world, marijuana smokers are easily the most annoying. Heroine and crack users just keep it to themselves. Marijuana addicts are the only ones that swear it's a religion, lifestyle, apparel choice, political ideology, life mission, etc etc. They're the Ron Paul voters of drug addicts.

If you smoke weed just shut the fuck up and smoke weed, nobody cares. nobody. at all. nobody cares.

alcohol is horrible, but so is marijuana. I've seen marijuana make vibrant people turn into vegatables on a consistent basis. I've seen the way it makes people obsess over it and justify their addiction and obsession. A marijuana addict is still more inclined to smoke more frequently than a cocaine addict and they're on par with alcoholics.

Getting addicted to weed is more of a psychological thing than a real addiction, like when certain people get addicted to food.

Alcohol and marijuana may be bad for you but they're also objectively cool just like sex fast cars etc.

Tbh its all just a balance of being cool but not going so overboard as to fuck urself up.

[Sun Tanama]

TSA sounds like he'd be fun to party with.

Anything you do habitually is eventually going to become addictive. Theres a time and place to have a drink or a smoke. I agree stoners are legit delusional about weed being addictive, its always people that have smoked every day since they were 17 that say its not addictive.

[Guarded By Martyrs]

Alcohol being bad doesn't make marijuana good, that's a logical fallacy.
They're both two useless things humans use to cope with their own weaknesses synthetically. Also, of all the drug addicts in the world....

Did I say either was a good or bad thing?

Just pointing out that the one that is sold globally actually kills alot of people.

Where as I've never heard of anyone dying from smoking marijuana?

Marijuana is a "Drug" now? okay okay.

[TSA]

what about marijuana isn't a drug? the people saying it isn't a drug are the ones telling use it's benefits as a drug for cancer patients.

I think it's probably the worst drug in america because the culture and mentality that surrounds to causes people to justify an unquestioned and glorified addiction. I've never met a casual week smoker. They always start that way until it becomes a daily thing. We're all of the age where it became a daily thing at one point and most took a conscious decision curb our addiction so that it can stop hindering our personal progress (late 20s).

I don't give an eff if someone smokes weed. Weed smokers would swear someone cares but in all honesty nobody does. It's almost single highhandedly vegetated 2 generations of Americans and no body is ready to question it. That's what I think the problem is. See it for what it is. It's not a political statement, religion, lifestyle, or anything like that, it's a drug.

I can't write anything like this about crack addicts because unlike weed smokers crack addicts shut the fuck up about their problem and have shame. Weed smokers will smoke that offensive smelling drug in public without regard to anyone else's sensibility with a vigilant readiness to attack anyone that questions them wit corny logic.

[Mantra]

alcohol is population control.

[brock]

I'll drink to that.

[The Hound]

Fuck alcohol. Why is ayahuasca illegal?