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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2004-03-09 10:57 am
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[identity profile] boutell.livejournal.com 2004-03-09 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
Only 12% of Italians? What's up with that? I guess the "glass of wine with dinner" thing is a myth.

Or maybe... they think it doesn't count!
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[identity profile] waider.livejournal.com 2004-03-09 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Funny thing about these surveys, which I may have previously expounded on, is that it all depends on the framing. Ireland is variously top and bottom of the drinking leagues, and the best explanation I've heard for that so far is that we're top in terms of stuff like this - regular drinkers, or drinkers who have more than X pints, or whatever, but 20% of the population is teetotal which pushes the Gross Drinking Product, to coin a phrase, down somewhat.