Booze, oh sweet sweet booze, was: Re: [lbo-talk] it's inevitable

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sat May 6 08:08:56 PDT 2006


How bad is the situation? I read a shoet while ago that in the more booze-friendly areas of Scotland, average male life expectancy is somthing like 53.

For some reason I see a lot fewer publically intoxicated people on the streets today than I used to. Maybe the police have started taking them in.

Wendy Lyon wrote:


>
> --- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> This can be illustrated by the seeming paradox that
> societies that are more tolerant toward alcohol
> consumption tend to have lower alcoholism and
> related problems than societies that are more
> intolerant.
>
> --
>
> I think Russia and Saudi Arabia are both glaring
> exceptions! ;)

And Ireland...

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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