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Russia is quite literally drinking itself to death
It’s difficult to overstate how serious Russia’s alcohol problem is.
More than 30% of all deaths in Russia in 2012 were attributable to alcohol, according to WHO data crunched by the OECD. That’s by far the highest among the nations it tracked.
Russian drinkers die a variety of deaths. Alcohol poisoning. Cirrhosis.Accidents. Suicide.
The result? Russians live some of the shortest lives in any large economy. Life expectancy for a Russian man was roughly 65 years in 2012, compared to 76 years for the US and 74 for China.
Part of the reason is cultural. Hard drinking has long been a Russian habit. A paper published in 2013 found that relatively high levels of alcohol-related deaths can be found in Russian data going back to the late 19th century …. http://qz.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/07/russia-is-quite-literally-drinking.html
