Both the Devil’s Kitchen and Dick Puddlecote have covered this extraordinary issue of the Lancet that is dedicated to alcohol. It’s obviously intended to be another salvo from a medically lead temperance movement.
Most of the actual articles are behind a subscription wall although I was amused to see that on the same page the Lancet offering that oh so embarrassing ‘ moderate drinkers die less young than teetotalers’ article. One of the authors of the articles in this Lancet is extensively quoted here where he says:
Alcohol-related death rates were highest in Europe – 10 percent.
Now that’s just fascinating because as was pointed out in the Kitchen article:
According to the ONS, there were 509,090 deaths in England and Wales in 2008 and there were 6,541 deaths related to alcohol in England.
Now we’ve just been told that ten percent of all these deaths were caused by alcohol so that’s 50, 909. But that only 6541 happened in England. So the remaining 44368 deaths must have happened in Wales!
Good heavens – what are they drinking over there ?
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