Scots rank high on drink levels

Scotland has the eighth-high level of the alcohol consumption in the world, according to statistics analyzed for the Scottish government.

The drinkers consumed almost 50 million liters of pure alcohol in 2007.

The old people more than 16 are descended the equivalent 11.8 liters from pure alcohol by anybody. To quantify for England and Wales was of 9.9 liters.

The minister of health Shona Robison said that the consumed amounts were related to the availability of cheap alcohol.

Earlier this month, BBC Scotland learned that the alcohol-related cases had caught up with the cardiac disease like reason of the admissions of hospital.

The figures, compiled particularly for the BBC, suggested alcohol were now one of the main causes of the admission at the hospital.

For the Scottish study of government, the analysts with Neilsen Company looked at alcohol sales.

The Scottish government said that the figure of 11.8 liters equalized 570 pints of beer of force of 4%, almost 500 pints of German lager of 5%,42 bottles of vodka or 125 bottles of wine for each adult during one year.

He added that it was enough so that each simple adult exceeds the significant drinkable directives for the men of 21 units each week of the year.

Compared with the last figures compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Scottish government said that this would place Scotland as having the eighth highest level of alcohol consumption pure.

This put the country behind Luxembourg (15.6 liters per capita), Ireland (13.7 liters), Hungary (13.6 liters), Moldau (13.2 liters), the Czech Republic (13.0 liters), Croatia (12.3 liters) and Germany (12.0 liters).

But it put Scotland in front of Russia - where the alcohol-related deaths cut the average life expectancy for the men to 59 - and also of the USA and China.

The figures of the office of the national statistics indicate that alcohol is almost 70% more accessible now than in 1980, because although the price of alcohol went up more quickly than of the prices to the detail of detail generally, the domestic income went up much more quickly.

Mrs. Robison said that Scotland was importunately close to the international table runner of league.

She said: Donn�es of sales of the alcohol industry itself indicate that us 'about buying and of drinking much more than people in the other BRITISH countries and the major part of the rest of the world.

It can there have doubt little that it is mainly a consequence of the great fall of alcohol 'of the relative price of S, which lowered 70% since 1980.

Mrs. Robison added: Sad En-avant of all this was an enormous rise in all the types of the diseases and alcohol-related deaths, with Scotland 'the rate one of cirrhosis of the liver of S of world more to rapid growth and double that of England and Wales.

Research coincided with the publication of a study which found that almost 1.500 Scot died each year because of drink.

The experts of the university of Glasgow and the Council Seeks medical (MRC) noted that on average men 999 in Scotland and 448 women die of the alcohol-related causes each year.

While waiting, secretary Kenny MacAskill of justice said that reducing the limit of driving under influence of intoxication would reduce accidents on roads of Scotland of 's.