Alcohol killing Europe, according to latest EC report

According to the report of the European Commission, current limitations on drinking are ineffective and 100 million Europeans get completely drunk at least once a month, which is every third adult person in the EU. Some 23 million EU citizens are addicted to alcohol and this concerns all countries on the continent. Losses stemming from absence at work, car accidents and other disadvantages of alcohol use, stand at roughly EUR125 billion annually, which is EUR650 per family. According to the authors of the report this situation could be easily changed. For instance, increasing the price of alcohol by 10% through an increase in taxes would lower the number of deaths by 9,000 in the following year. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) M.M.