By Donatella Cinelli Colombini

It must be said that in Italy the problem of alcohol abuse is much lower than in other consumer countries. If in fact in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus, Lithuania and Portugal the average alcohol consumed in a year is 12.5 liters per person. In Italy it is between 5 and 7 liters as in Japan, Iceland or China. It must be known , in the ranking of the OECD countries on alcohol abuse, in the first place are the USA, and Italy is in last position.
However wine is only 12% of the total alcoholic beverages consumed by about 2.3 billion people in the world. To alcohol should be added drugs which are often used in a combined way, especially by young people, to accelerate the euphoric effect.

COMBATING ALCOHOL ABUSE AND EDUCATING ABOUT MODERATE CONSUMPTION OF WINE

Tackling abuse through actions of moderate consumer education has been at the heart of the policy of historically wine producing countries such as Italy, France and Spain. These are the countries where average per capita consumption has fallen most in the last 50 years. In Italy it is now 35 liters per year and seems to have stabilized after a real collapse when occasional consumers have replaced the usual ones.…

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