Based on my observations of my misspent youth and other
discontents the spin Roizen has put on beer consumption makes more
sense than the original argument. I am aware that one should never
generalize from a single example but I did it anyway.
Gus Seligmann
Subject: Re: DUI and wine
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:35:37 -0800
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From: Ron Roizen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: DUI and wine
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Robin --
1. It's interesting that this paper suggests both that beer "accounts for"
the bulk of alcohol-related problems and that hazardous beer drinkers "are
more likely" to be youthful, single, males. Might we switch those verb
forms around, however, and say instead that hellraising young males
"account for" most alcohol-related problems and that these gents are "more
likely to be" beer drinkers?
2. Abstract (paper too?) ignores the strong aggregate-level trend
relationship between spirits consumption and cirrhosis mortality -- also an
"alcohol-related problem." Beer's trend relationship with cirrhosis (as
Terris noted so long ago) was nil in the U.S.
Ron Roizen, ph.d.
consultant sociologist
http://www.roizen.com/ron/index.htm
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From: Robin Room <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: DUI and wine
Date: Friday, January 12, 2001 1:54 PM
Martin -- the differences are much more likely to be due to who drinks the
different beverages, under what circumstances, than to any metabolic
differences between beverages. Below is a reference from Medline which
will get you started. Robin
J Stud Alcohol 1999 Nov; 60(6):732-9
Beer drinking accounts for most of the hazardous alcohol consumption
reported in the United States. Rogers JD, Greenfield TK Alcohol Research
Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California 94709, USA.
OBJECTIVE: Patterns and correlates of hazardous drinking, defined as
occasions in which five or more drinks were consumed in a day, were
compared for wine, beer and distilled spirits. METHOD: From a probability
sample of the U.S. adult household population, 2,817 respondents who had
consumed at least one drink in the previous year were selected for
analysis. RESULTS: The results show that, in the U.S., beer accounts for
the bulk of alcohol consumed by the heaviest drinkers. Beer also accounts
for a disproportionate share of hazardous drinking. Logistic regression
analyses revealed that drinkers who consume beer in a hazardous fashion at
least monthly are more likely to be young, male and unmarried, and less
likely to be black than are other drinkers. Hazardous beer consumption is
more predictive of alcohol-related problems than hazardous consumption of
wine or spirits. CONCLUSIONS: Three potential explanations for the results
are considered: advertising, beer-drinking subcultures and risk
compensation. Additional research is urged in order to better specify the
causal role of these and other factors in hazardous beer drinking. PMID:
10606483, UI: 20072499
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From: Mac Marshall
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Sent: den 12 januari 2001 21:20
Subject: DUI and wine
Dear Fellow KBS'ers,
I'm forwarding this from another list because I suspect our group is more
competent to answer these questions than is the Alcohol & Temperance
History Group.
If you respond to Martin Platts, please copy it to me (or to the KBS
list), since I'm interested in the responses.
Thanks,
Mac Marshall
Sender: Alcohol and Temperance History Group
From: Martin Platts
Subject: DUI and wine
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Has anyone on this list researched the breakdown of alcoholism and DUI
in regards to wine consumption? I have contacte a number of organizations
who generalize but never give actual specifics as to the statistical
breakdown between wine, beer, and spirits. Does drinking wine with food
travel through the blood stream at a slower rate than if one was consuming
beer and spirits with the same food? What is the metabolic rate difference
ratios in all three alcohol substances on say a 180 lb man and 135lb woman?
Is wine is bottom of the DUI list of alcohol beverages in such cases?
Government agencies have been very reluctant to disseminate the differences
to me. This information I need for my forthcoming book "Visions on Wine."
which hopes to cover both sides of the issue. Thank you. Martin Platts
h.c.i.m.a.
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