46 bottles of booze on the wall

Here's a sobering thought for the day. Data analysed by the NHS Health Scotland has revealed that on average, adults in Scotland are drinking the equivalent of 46 bottles of vodka a year. That's forty six bottles per person per year. Breaking it down to a more likely choice of booze that's around 537 pints of beer or 130 bottles of wine per person. The figures also reveal that adults in England and Wales on average drink 25% less alcohol than those in Scotland.

I know people back home drink a lot, me included but the figures mentioned are pretty sensational. At whatever standard you drink to and whatever is your poison 12.2 litres of pure alcohol per person in a calender year is some going. When you factor in that some of the people in the review will be drinking less than others, then some folks must be spectacularly rampant alcoholics. Still, this is what can happen when alcohol is so cheap in supermarkets these days. I'm getting thirsty...