'Surrogate' alcohol is killing Russians

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	'Surrogate' alcohol is killing Russians

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6-17-2007 4:41 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/79b3600a-5d72-4bdc-ac05-5eede68ad6c9/26658B14-1C65-4AB9-B82E-243D08FB9575/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21914198-401,00.html" href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21914198-401,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.news.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21914198-401,00.html"><STRONG>DRINKING 'surrogate' alcohol - such as eau de colognes and antiseptics - may be responsible for nearly half of all deaths among working-age men in Russia.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21914198-401,00.html">according to data from 2002, in the European subregion including Russia, 19 per cent of male mortality was attributable to all types of alcohol.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21914198-401,00.html"><P>In Western Europe, the comparable figure was three per cent. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21914198-401,00.html"><P>"Drinking surrogate alcohol is a very rapid way to finish yourself off." </p> <P>The technique requires practice, since ingesting concentrated forms of ethanol can lead to a stripping away of lung cells if drinkers breathe in right after taking a swig.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21914198-401,00.html"><P>But whether men drank hazardous alcohol was the most potent predictor of mortality, Dr Leon said. </p> <P><DIV>Men who did so had an approximately sixfold increase in death compared with men who did not.</DIV></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21914198-401,00.html"><DIV>In a society that has a word for continual drunkenness lasting more than two days - zapoi - experts say the findings underline its problem with alcohol. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/26658B14-1C65-4AB9-B82E-243D08FB9575/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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