Cut booze, cigs to save billions
CUTTING back on drinking and smoking would not only save thousands of Australian lives, it could also save the economy more than $2 billion.
A new study finds that reducing the average annual intake of 773 standard drinks per adult to 505 drinks a year would save 38 lives and $1.2 billion.
The VicHealth-backed study conducted by Deakin University also found if the rate of smoking was cut from the current 23 per cent of Australians to 15 per cent, 5,000 deaths would be prevented and more than $900 million in health, production and leisure costs would be saved.
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2 comments:
So true! If Mum didn't smoke she'd be alive today. :o(
505 drinks a year! Sheesh, I'd be lucky to have 100 in a year ... and that's only now cos I've taken to drinking a coffee liqueur on the weekends, before that I hardly drunk a drop!
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