Posted on 06/29/2009 7:00:38 AM PDT by Daffynition
MOSCOW, June 26 (Reuters) - Cheap and illicit alcohol kills more than half Russian men and women in their most productive years and the government must act urgently to reverse the trend, a study to be published in The Lancet at the weekend said.
"Excessive alcohol consumption in Russia, particularly by men, has in several recent years caused more than half of all the deaths at ages of 15-54 years," the Lancet article said. The research conducted in three industrial cities -- Tomsk, Barnaul and Biysk -- said "excess mortality from liver cancer, throat cancer, liver disease, and pancreatic disease is largely or wholly because alcohol caused the disease that caused death".
High mortality from tuberculosis and pneumonia may be partly a result of increased exposure to infection, weak immunity, or decreased likelihood of cure, the research found.
Russia's mortality rate in people aged 15-54 years was more than five times higher for men and three times higher for women than in Western Europe, the study showed.
Alcohol is responsible for about three quarters of the deaths of all Russian men aged 15-54 and about half of all deaths of Russian women of the same age, the data showed.
Russia must stop or tax the illicit alcohol output, the article said, adding this in turn would mean "confrontation with organised criminals and corrupt officials ... All that is needed is the political will to make public health a priority".
David Zaridze, head of the Russian Cancer Research Centre and principle author of the study, told Reuters, "Each year 1.3 million people die from cardio-vascular diseases in Russia."
"Based on our investigation, it is possible to suggest that at least a third of these deaths is linked to alcohol consumption and not to any specific heart pathology," he said.
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Wish I owned a Vodka factory in the Rodina!!!! Major commodity there I guess. Liver transplants are also a good business, but finding donors with functional livers upon passing might be difficult.....
How else are you going to keep warm in Siberia?
All the more reason to give them twice as much..get rid of ‘em all faster
Are there any other groups of white folks that you’d like to eliminate?
And by alcohol they mean the Communism.
Those are some seriously drunk people. Where is that picture from?
Alcoholism goes up as the welfare state comes down. Same in Britain. Welfare state leaves people hopeless, bored, crushed by big bureaucracies. So drink up! Nothing else to do with your ‘mind’.
The problem is not that alcohol is cheap and readily available, it’s that their nation is driving them to drink.
Of prime concern is that Muslims will be the majority soon. Forget Pakistan-what’s going to happen to all the Russian nukes when muslims takeover-espially with our weakling President?
People in Russia have been known (even in the post Soviet era) to distill the alcohol from various solvents, etc.
I'm sure Putin misses the good old days when the government killed over half of Russians in prime...
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