Russia's Love Of Vodka Drives Premature Death Rates In Men

Vodka has long been a part of Russian culture and that culture needs to change if the country wants to save the lives of thousands of its people.

Russia's Love Of Vodka Drives Premature Death Rates In Men According to a new study published in The Lancet, vodka is a major cause of the high risk of premature death in Russian adults – with a quarter of all Russian men dying before reaching 55.

“Russian death rates have fluctuated wildly over the last 30 years as alcohol restrictions and social stability varied under Presidents Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin, and the main thing driving these wild fluctuations in death was vodka,” study author Richard Peto, an epidemiologist from the University of Oxford, to...

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