Alcohol Kills More than AIDS
Baku, February 22 (AZERTAC). Deaths caused by alcohol are far more than than deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis or violence. World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that alcohol cause four percent of death worldwide.
Excessive alcohol consumption is associated with 60 kinds of diseases, including liver cirrhosis, epilepsy, poisoning, traffic accidents and acts of violence. Some cancers are also triggered by alcohol, such as colorectal cancer, breast, liver and throat.
In recent years a global increase in alcohol consumption is triggered by the economical increase in countries with dense population such as in Africa and Asia, including India and South Africa.
WHO in its Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health says each year 2.5 million people died from various causes that is triggered by alcohol. “Consumption of alcohol, especially fatal to a group of young people and alcohol became the highest cause of death in men aged 15-59 years old,” WHO said in its report, according to Reuters.
Addiction to alcohol as a trigger of dangerous behavior are found in Brazil, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine and continues to increase in many countries.
“Worldwide, about 11 percent of alcoholics at least drinks alcohol excessively every week, and is done more by men than women with a ratio of four to one,” wrote WHO.
Health ministers from 193 WHO member states their agreement to make policies to reduce alcohol abuse by raising taxes and limiting marketing of alcoholic beverages.
Nevertheless, traditional alcoholic beverages or homemade are products widely consumed by alcoholics from poor countries making it difficult to control. Most of the drinks are even toxic and cause casualties.
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