Alcohol Kills One Person Every 10 Seconds Worldwide: WHO

[Purveyor]

By Agence France-Presse
Monday, May 12, 2014 13:54 EDT

Alcohol kills 3.3 million people worldwide each year, more than AIDS, tuberculosis and violence combined, the World Health Organization said Monday, warning that booze consumption was on the rise.

Including drink driving, alcohol-induced violence and abuse, and a multitude of diseases and disorders, alcohol causes one in 20 deaths globally every year, the UN health agency said.

“This actually translates into one death every 10 seconds,” Shekhar Saxena, who heads the WHO’s Mental Health and Substance Abuse department, told reporters in Geneva.

Alcohol caused some 3.3 million deaths in 2012, WHO said, equivalent to 5.9 percent of global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women).

In comparison, HIV/AIDS is responsible for 2.8 percent, tuberculosis causes 1.7 percent of deaths and violence is responsible for just 0.9 percent, the study showed.

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[snooper2]

1. If I remember correctly 4.5 babies are born every second

[corkhead]

2. If it wasn't alcohol, it would just be something else sooner or later.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. We tried banning it here and it didn't help.

[jberryhill]

4. Water remains a bigger killer

Many other diseases are spread by water, and that's on top of the 359,000 annual global drowning deaths.

If you are in a developing country and I hand you a glass of tap water or a bottle of beer, which one would you drink?