Residents of Russia have become much less drink alcohol. This was reported TASS the press service of the Ministry of health on Thursday, July 20.
In 2016, the fourth year after a ban on the advertising of such products in the media, the amount of alcohol consumed per capita decreased from 12.4 to 10.3 liters per year. However, this figure is a quarter higher than normal, defined by the world health organization (who).
Mortality from alcohol poisoning during the same period of time fell by nearly half, from 11.4 to 5.6 per 100 thousand people. In total, according to the who, every year from alcohol in the world to die for 3.3 million people — 5.9% of all deaths.
8 June it was reported to reduce the number of smokers and drinkers among Russian citizens. According to the Minister of health Veronika Skvortsova, among youth smokers was 3.5 times less, and alcohol consumption in the country declined by 13.5%.
According to the report of Rospotrebnadzor, the drinking Russian region (in terms of sales of alcohol) became the Magadan oblast. The leaders are Moscow, the Komi Republic and Sakhalin. The sober subjects named Ingushetia, Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia.