Good for them. I was visiting Dublin this past summer. One early morning, I stumbled across a guy having alcohol withdrawal seizures (according to his friend that didn't have a phone, so I called 112 for them). Later that day, I watched a guy pass out drunk in the road. Construction workers came from a nearby site and placed cones around him so he wouldn't get run over.<p>Maybe my experience was abnormal, but it was shocking.
>14.3 litres of pure alcohol a year<p>To get to this amount of alcohol for reference, a pretty standard bottle of spirits is 750 mL and 80 proof, or 40% alcohol by volume. so if you regularly bought a One liter bottle of liquor you would need to drink 35.75 bottles of Jameson a year, or larger, and pricier, 35.75 bottles of Smirnoff.
That is the average, and from public health studies I've read in the past alcohol consumption by average has a serious barbell effect altering the average.<p>Personally I have three drinks and think " I should slow down"