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We are barely in the top 50 for drinks consumed per capita. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption_per_capita https://en.wikipe

• philiphodgen 9y ago
  Perhaps the article says more about the publisher — and journalistic practices generally — than it says about the Great Americans Drinking Public. A quick look finds this throughly unscientific statistic: > In 1790, United States government figures showed that annual per-capita alcohol consumption for everybody over fifteen amounted to thirty-four gallons of beer and cider, five gallons of distilled spirits, and one gallon of wine. http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Holiday07/drink.cfm http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Holiday07/drink.cf... People who keep yelling “Scary Monsters Under the Bed” can be ignored.
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