Alcohol+Attitudes

ALCOHOL ATTITUDES THROUGHOUT DIFFERENT REGIONS

Many different regions of the world have different opinions on alcohol. Some regions prefer to accept alcohol and drink it while other regions don’t allow it but perhaps still drink it. Both ways alcohol affects them in bad ways. World wide alcohol is the second most addicting drug after cigarettes. Many people both young and old consume alcohol in a weekly basis. In this following page you will find out about the opinions on alcohol from different regions of the world.

Iraq would be a good example for a country which doesn’t allow alcohol consumption. Iraq is a Muslim country, in the religion of Islam consuming alcohol is a sin. Selling and buying alcohol in Iraq is legal. Some militia groups started bombing stores selling alcohol, and killing people who sell alcohol from their homes. Selling alcohol is a big danger in Iraq even if it is legal, but buying it is even more risky. Even though Iraq is a Muslim country and Muslims aren’t allowed to consume alcohol, many alcohol merchants in Iraq say that more Muslims buy and consume alcohol in Iraq than any Christians. media type="youtube" key="em3HdSubhZU&rel=1" height="355" width="425"

Alcohol in Egypt is strictly forbidden for the majority of Muslims just like in Iraq. Alcohol is used by the few non-Muslims and the tourists, but it is very much frowned upon to be drunk in a public place in Egypt. There is alcohol all around Egypt, in almost every city and town. In contrast from Iraq, Egypt has less Muslims that consume alcohol. For the few who do, Stella is one of the most popular beer brand in the country.

Great Britain is one of the countries which allow alcohol culture wise and opinion wise. 92% of the men and 86 %of the women consume alcohol on a daily basis. The British most likely drink at home and they don’t drink more than 1 to 2 drinks per day. The British agree that consuming alcohol is relaxing.

United States of America is one of the most populated and biggest countries in the world; the typical U.S. citizen watches 1,000 alcohol commercials per year. Each year alcohol industries spend 2 billion dollars on alcohol commercials. In contrast Americans spend over 90 billion dollars on alcohol per year. Because of all these alcohol commercials 56% of the students in age 5-12 say that alcohol commercials encourage kids to drink.

Over 15 million people in the United States drink alcohol, and 500,000 of them are kids between the age 9-12. An average American, most likely consumes over 25 gallons of beer, 2 gallons of wine, and 1.5 gallons of distilled spirits each year.

Each year an average student spends $5.5 billion on alcohol. This is more then the amount they spend on soft drinks, tea, milk, juice, coffee, or books combined. Alcohol is the number 1 drug problem in America, each year ¼ of the American population visit hospitals because of consuming too much alcohol. And every 20 minutes a person is killed because of an alcohol related traffic accident.

According to the 2003 statistics of Nigeria, out of 5886 people surveyed 52% reported having alcohol as their primary drug of abuse, with a further 13% having alcohol as a secondary drug of abuse. Alcohol is becoming a big issue in Nigeria, 30% of the hospital visits are now alcohol related. 50% of vehicle accidents are due to alcohol, 76% of the violent criminals were alcohol users. In 2005, 96 % of the alcohol sold in Nigeria was beer. From 2000 to 2005, the consumption of alcohol in Nigeria increased by 60 %. Alcohol got 20 % cheaper which benefited the alcohol consumers. As you can understand Nigeria is becoming a dangerous alcohol consumption country, now causing many peoples deaths just for a couple of hours of fun.

Australia is one of the countries which consume a lot of alcohol .1/8 of adults consume risky amounts of alcohol every day. In a recent survey done in 2004-05, 15% of adult males and 12% of adult females reported drinking at a risky/high risk level, while 55% of males and 43% of females reported drinking at a low risk level. 12% of males and 4% of females had consumed alcohol at risky/high levels in short term at least once over the 12 months.

25% of teens aged 14-19 years drink alcohol on a daily or weekly basis. Among teenagers aged 14-19 are drinking at risky/high levels in the long term. 77% of boys usually consume beer, while 85% of girls usually consume bottled spirits and liqueurs. Alcohol is the second largest cause of death in the country. 33,000 teens in the last year were injured because of an alcohol related accident.13 per cent of all deaths among 14- to 17-year-old is because of alcohol or alcohol related accident.

In China, alcohol is very popular. They have been drinking alcohol since the rise of their country and have found many techniques for brewing. Drinking in China is known to be beneficial. In the medieval days, the Chinese used alcohol for religious ceremonies, and for good luck before battles, by having a toast. Their was a story of two men who became blood brothers by drinking wine with each others blood in it.

Korea is one of the countries which are having an increase in the amounts of alcohol consumed. In the first half of 2007, alcohol consumption increased because of beer companies shipping more beer to Korea. According to businesses and the meeting of alcohol manufacturers from January through June nearly 1.5 million cases of alcohol were shipped, an increase of 8.6% from last year’s 1.34 million cases.

As you read above, you can understand that alcohol consumption in mainly increasing in the world. Today in the world the cost of alcohol is going down, more commercials are being made, more people use alcohol in risky amounts. This is really sad to see because many of them die, don't drink and take care of your health if you do not want to die young!!

Web Page Citations:

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"Alcohol overview." __http://www.legacyaa.com/articles/alcoholOverview.htm__. 30 Jan. 2008 <[|http://www.legacyaa.com/>.]__

http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/health/drugs_and_alcohol/docs/ attitudes_to_alcohol.pdf__. 30 Jan. 2008 <[|http://www.london.gov.uk.com>.]

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