Who Drinks the Most Alcohol?

15. Malt-liquor drinkers drink 45 percent more than hard-liquor drinkers.

Among drinkers whose beverage of choice is malt liquor, 74 percent drink daily or nearly daily, compared to 48 percent of drinkers who prefer ordinary beer and 29 percent of drinkers who prefer hard liquor. According to the authors of this study, malt-liquor drinkers consume over three times as much ethanol within a typical three-month period as ordinary-beer drinkers and almost a full ounce more ethanol than hard-liquor drinkers. Who drinks what? "The odds of preferring hard liquor as compared with malt liquor were significantly increased for persons with white-collar occupations and those who drank in public settings and were reduced for persons who drank outdoors."

Ricky Blumenthal et al. (2005): Characteristics of malt liquor beer drinkers in a low-income racial minority community sample. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 29 (3), 402-409

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