Russian Men Drink Themselves To The Grave
Nearly half of Russia’s working-age men who die are drinking themselves to the grave with almost anything they can get their hands on.
According to a new medical study, Russian men are dying from alcohol abuse by drinking anything from vodka to eau de cologne, antiseptics and medicinal tinctures. Some products contain 95 per cent alcohol by volume, equating to 200 proof.
According to Reuters report, researchers tracked 1750 men who died between 2003 and 2005 in Izhevsk, an industrial city of about 700,000 people in the Ural mountains, and an equal number of men who were still alive. Writing in the Lancet medical journal, researchers concluded that dangerous drinking caused 43 per cent of deaths of men aged 25 to 54 in Izhevsk.
The researchers viewed dangerous drinking as heavy consumption of alcoholic beverages, such as vodka and beer, as well as consumption of products containing large concentrations of alcohol, like medical tinctures, colognes and cleaning agents.
“Life expectancy in Russian men today is 58 years,” Leon said “It’s lower than the level of men in Bangladesh, a Third World country.
Men who drank alcohol excessively or who drank non-beverage alcohol were found to be six times more likely to die than men who did not drink at all or did not drink heavily.
If the results for this city can be generalised to the whole country, Leon said, this pattern of excessive drinking may be causing 170,000 deaths a year in Russia.
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I witnessed a documentary re russia’s alcohol crisis amongst russian men, particularly men aged in their 20’s to 30’s. I am of russian descent and am saddened by this fact. Whatever happened to drinking vodka for enjoyment and partaking in this habit as something to be enjoyed culturally amongst friends and family. Having said that I would like to add that it is not the vodka that is destroying the lives of russians but impure substances (any product which contains alcohol)as mentioned in the article. The alcohol that we drink such as vodka contains ethyl alcohol and is the part that enters the bloodstream and depresses the central nervous system. Poor substitutes such as cleaner fluids etc do not contain this and although they are alcohol products contain harmful chemicals and not the beneficial kind we see in products such as vodka. I have tested the effects of vodka and have noted that since drinking vodka daily I have not contracted a common cold or flu like virus. It also has taken away my need to take pain killers daily due to a spinal defect. These impure and harmful alcohol products are an inexpensive option to the alcohol we drink and I dont think we would witness a high death rate if alcoholic drinks were cheaper than the beforementioned. Fix the economy and offer higher wages and you will notice a marked difference.
The Russian men are drinking themselves to death because of Russian women.
Russia is losing over 700,000 people a year, through death and emigration. There is nothing to look forward to there. Pollution and corruption, it really is a third world country.