Vodka consumption among the leading causes of death in Russia

Some say that the origin of the word vodka comes from the Russian expression for water: "voda". Some even make sure the vodka came to be known as "the water of life". This study, which followed nearly 150 thousand people for ten years, comes counter this concept.

"No other country ever seen numbers like these. So many deaths happen only in times of war. Never in peacetime. I call it the demographic crisis, "said David Zaridze, Deputy Head of the Russian Center for research on cancer.

On the street, a Russian citizen assumes that "drinking to excess is bad", but stresses, "be one of the biggest causes of death doesn't make any sense". A woman has an explanation: "people may be drinking too much out of desperation. Without a job, what can we do? Drink. "

In Portugal, 2009 data indicated that that year died 1214 people (12.9 percent in each 100 thousand inhabitants) with less than 65 years due to health problems attributable to the consumption of alcoholic beverages. A worrisome value insofar as it revealed a sharp rise compared with 2005 numbers (11.9 percent in each 100 thousand inhabitants) and 2006 (11.1 percent), years in which this type of mortality presented lower numbers.

The study about the Russians recognize that the consumption of alcohol has been getting more moderate, much because of some measures adopted to that effect by the Kremlin in the last decade after almost 80 years radical limitations, even in the Soviet Union. This way the danger of drink himself to death is also declining among the Russians.

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