WHO data shows the dangers of liquor that we even don’t discuss.The ever increasing danger of liquor is rising along with rise in its trend and social acceptability. WHO report on liquor and health tells the same thing. According to the report there were 30lakhs death in 2016 due to liquor in the world, among them 23 lakhs were men and 7 lakhs were women. The percentage of death due to liquor is 53% out of total number of deaths in the world. In the year 2016 the number of deaths due to liquor injury was 28.75%, 21.3% due to digestive problems, 19% due to heart diseases, 12.9% due to infectious diseases, and 12.6% deaths due to cancer. The number of deaths due to liquor in the age group from 20 to 29 is 13.5 percent. In the year 2016, 370,000 people died in road accident due to liquor and out of them 187,000 were not even driving the vehicle. This year 150,000 suicides were reported due to liquor and 90,000 died due to mutual violence.
The World Health Organization figures show us the dangers of alcohol, which are not discussed much on these days.
Taking excessive liquor in short span of time is also the cause of many problems, in the report it has been stated that at least 200 types of diseases and injuries are caused due to excessive intake of liquor. Liquor is also the reason for diseases like liver cirrhosis and various types of cancer. In this report new facts have been revealed that consumption of liquor is related to spreading of diseases like tuberculosis and infectious diseases. Previously taking excessive liquor was related to brain disorders and dementia, but now research of Oxford University and university college London have revealed that even small amount of liquor can cause these types of disorders. In America research work over 1300 women showed the same results.
These types of reports are published yearly but the liquor lobby is busy spreading false myth that intake of small amount of liquor is harmless and good for health. Its truth has come out in a recent study, which was published three months ago in the prestigious Medical Journal, The Lancet. According to Max Griswold, group of around 500 experts, the study showed that there are no such safe amounts of alcohol, as the daily consumption of alcohol increases, the risk of health increases. Taking one Drink in a day (about 10 grams of alcohol) causes one lakh more deaths in one year. Considering 24 health problems in the study, it was reported that if five drinks are taken in one day, then health problems increase by 37%.
Looking at males aged 15 to 49 years, 12 percent of the deaths are due to alcohol. Death in this age group is often considered to be very tragic and a crisis situation for the family. It is a major warning that 12% of the deaths in this age are due to alcohol. In higher age group more than 43 percent people (men and women) drink alcohol in the world. The total number of alcoholic drinkers is 230 million. The figure of consumption is given on the basis of how much pure alcohol a person has consumed in a year. In the year 2005, the per capita consumption in the world was 32.8 grams, 25.8 percent of the total consumption of alcohol in the world is such, that it is not recorded in government sales and tax records and that is what we call illegal liquor.