"Aftershave Drink" Kills Russians

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I guess lighter fuel is out of the question too....

Russian men are risking death by drinking aftershave and cleaning agents, a study has suggested.

UK researchers estimated that half of all deaths in working age men in the country are due to hazardous drinking.

The products, which also include herbal tinctures sold in pharmacies, are widely available, cheap and contain up to 97% alcohol, the Lancet study says.

It was found that they contain very few toxins but are deadly simply because of the extreme alcohol levels.

Russian men have an "exceptionally low" life expectancy of 59 years, compared with 72 years for women.

Men of working age are three-and-a-half times more likely to die than men in Britain.

Past studies have shown levels of alcohol consumption among the Russian population, where spirits such as vodka are popular, are high.

But the team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine wanted to take into account non-beverage alcohol.

They looked at 1,750 deaths in men aged 25 to 54 years in 2003 and 2005 in Izhevsk, a typical Russian city in the Western Ural region.

Family members were interviewed about the drinking habits of the deceased.

High mortality

Hazardous drinking - classed as excessive consumption of regular drinks such as beer, wine and spirits or drinking of non-beverage alcohol - was found to cause 43% of deaths.

Men who drank heavily or who drank non-beverage alcohol, were six times more likely to die than similar men who did not drink at all or did not have a drinking problem.

Those who specifically drank non-beverage alcohol were nine times more likely to die than those who did not.

Lead researcher Professor David Leon said: "We're talking about things like eau de cologne and aftershave which are widely available at kiosks and cheaper because they are not subject to excise duty.

"The important work we have done is the toxicology and with many of these products all that's in them is water and ethanol and something to make them smell a bit - people are dying because of the concentration of alcohol in a cheap, readily available form.

"They should be more strictly regulated."

He said the toll might be even higher as his work only concentrated on men who lived with their families.

Andrew McNeill, director of the Institute of Alcohol Studies said there was a problem with heavy drinking in Eastern Europe in general.

"It has fluctuated in Russia - under Communism, alcohol was the only thing people could afford.

"Gorbachev tried to sober everyone up but he couldn't sustain it."

He added that rapid economic development in recent years may have added to the social problems which often underlie heavy drinking.

"In Western countries, there's a link between alcohol and health inequalities.

"We don't find much more heavy drinking in poorer populations but morbidity and mortality tends to be higher because it compounds other problems."

Dr Jurgen Rehm from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada, said that many factors might have affected death rates in Russia during the time covered by the study, with non-beverage alcohol "highly unlikely to be the main contributor".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6752515.stm

[almaty 19]

rubby dubby drinkers..i have had allot of clients killed by rubbing etoh.,.on zuni, it was listerine..sad

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

rubby dubby drinkers..i have had allot of clients killed by rubbing etoh.,.on zuni, it was listerine..sad

I read somewhere that a lot of bums purposefully drink Listerine, not only because its relatively cheap but because by some loophole the police can't arrest them for drinking it in public.

[almaty 19]

rubby dubby drinkers..i have had allot of clients killed by rubbing etoh.,.on zuni, it was listerine..sad

I read somewhere that a lot of bums purposefully drink Listerine, not only because its relatively cheap but because by some loophole the police can't arrest them for drinking it in public.

Listerine is 40% etoh ...is a high concentrated drink..in Zuni it was mixed with water...i claled it a Zuni mixed drink..had a client die, and he had 24 empty cases in his house....causes a poision effect...it is a sicking smell when you tlak to someone who is intox. on that stuff.

[Nancy2015 2]

They do a study on bums and lower-class people, folks unfamiliar with my country read it, and start to think that that's the way the whole country is.

Typical

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

They do a study on bums and lower-class people, folks unfamiliar with my country read it, and start to think that that's the way the whole country is.

Typical

Don't think anyone said or implied that they think that's how the whole country is.

[Jenn! 918]

Yuck! That reminds me of Kitty Dukakis. Amazing what an addiction can drive you to...

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Alcoholism is a world-wide problem - but when people stoop to drinking lighter-fuel, anti-freeze, after-shave and Listerine, that's obviously a very serious personal problem.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

rubby dubby drinkers..i have had allot of clients killed by rubbing etoh.,.on zuni, it was listerine..sad

I read somewhere that a lot of bums purposefully drink Listerine, not only because its relatively cheap but because by some loophole the police can't arrest them for drinking it in public.

Probably accurate--as Listerine was not meant for drinking, it is not a "beverage", so they can't arrest for having "open alco-beverage container". In Canada, some alcoholics (including on Native Reservations, from where some of the leaders complained for new legislations) would buy either windshield antifreeze (0% EtOH, easily 10% CH3OH which will give drunkenness, but is quite deadly--this was also attempted much during Prohibition) or Lysol (66% EtOH) to get drunk; same reasoning applies.

[almaty 19]

rubby dubby drinkers..i have had allot of clients killed by rubbing etoh.,.on zuni, it was listerine..sad

I read somewhere that a lot of bums purposefully drink Listerine, not only because its relatively cheap but because by some loophole the police can't arrest them for drinking it in public.

Probably accurate--as Listerine was not meant for drinking, it is not a "beverage", so they can't arrest for having "open alco-beverage container". In Canada, some alcoholics (including on Native Reservations, from where some of the leaders complained for new legislations) would buy either windshield antifreeze (0% EtOH, easily 10% CH3OH which will give drunkenness, but is quite deadly--this was also attempted much during Prohibition) or Lysol (66% EtOH) to get drunk; same reasoning applies.

as always brother sriniv, excellent post and explanation...that is what i meant to write but was not that clear

[Ban Hammer 14,462]

on the other hand, their breath smells good

[JoeMama 0]

Whatever happened to catching a buzz from Nyquil? I know I've caught one...and I wasn't ill either!