Alcohol Consumption

[Travis]

Ok guys...let's have some honesty here...hehe! hic!What's your average weekly consumption of alcohol in P'pines?What's your favourite tipple?

I do not drink except a beer to be socialable so I probably drink less then most of this forum or living here but it is fun to joke about it

[roy2cebu]

Hi Traveller,I'm beginning to wonder if you are a priest....

[roy2cebu]

Up to 20 stubbies every evening of SM Light when in Cebu City.On Leyte, maybe not at all or if I do, it will be Tanduay with the relatives. Some times drinking in a group we might drink five 700ml bottles between 5 or 6 of us. However, I will be travelling with an American this trip. If he is drinking, I will be drinking.Regards; Jim

Bloody Hell Jim! 20 ...20 stubbies a night....!!!!!Thought I had a problem when pushing a dozen on a night out....how do you cope ...sh&t faced or steady? Or is that a stupid question?Could be intersting if we catch up later in the year....:508:

[Jollygoodfellow]

Ok,maybe your waiting for my statistics.When I arrive in Cebu I have a phone number to call,within an hour the beer tanker arrives and plugs directly into me,this saves a lot of empty bottles,cans etc.A tanker last almost a month but not real economical with paying the driver to sit there day and night stacking ice on the outlet pipe but who wants warm beer.In the morning the valve is opened only about half way but increases during the day,about 7pm and its at full throttle.I always stay somewhere that's got a balcony so that I don't have to move around much,just pee over the side.Now who's going to join me in a Tanker or two next March?

[MikeB]

Ok,maybe your waiting for my statistics.When I arrive in Cebu I have a phone number to call,within an hour the beer tanker arrives and plugs directly into me,this saves a lot of empty bottles,cans etc.A tanker last almost a month but not real economical with paying the driver to sit there day and night stacking ice on the outlet pipe but who wants warm beer.In the morning the valve is opened only about half way but increases during the day,about 7pm and its at full throttle.I always stay somewhere that's got a balcony so that I don't have to move around much,just pee over the side. Now who's going to join me in a Tanker or two next March?

I'll certainly try. Might be April though. Looking forward to it.

[Travis]

Hi Traveller,I'm beginning to wonder if you are a priest....

no I am a none :welcome: :508:

[Jim Sibbick]

Up to 20 stubbies every evening of SM Light when in Cebu City.On Leyte, maybe not at all or if I do, it will be Tanduay with the relatives. Some times drinking in a group we might drink five 700ml bottles between 5 or 6 of us. However, I will be travelling with an American this trip. If he is drinking, I will be drinking.Regards; Jim

Bloody Hell Jim! 20 ...20 stubbies a night....!!!!!Thought I had a problem when pushing a dozen on a night out....how do you cope ...sh&t faced or steady? Or is that a stupid question?Could be intersting if we catch up later in the year....:508:

I did say.... up to ....20. Maybe sometimes I can only drink 19! :welcome: Yes, we can catch up end of November.I stay at the Cebu Century hotel. It is low class but I am happy there. I am particularly happy with the price.Drinking starts at the Sesame bar, just near the entrance to the Cebu Century Hotel. It is about P30 a stubbie there. Regards; Jim

[Old55]

I visit Philippines more or less once a year for about a month. Because of the heat a busy schedule and a “protective” wife I may drink “some beer” once or twice each trip.

[Inspector]

I just ate some bourbon chicken, and feel sick. I guess eating booze is not the same as drinking it? :541:

[Inspector]

Alcohol consumption worst than crack or heroin

Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than both crack and heroin when the combined harms to the user and to others are assessed, British scientists said Monday. Presenting a new scale of drug harm that rates the damage to users themselves and to wider society, the scientists rated alcohol the most harmful overall and almost three times as harmful as cocaine or tobacco. According to the scale, devised by a group of scientists including Britain's Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) and an expert adviser to the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), heroin and crack cocaine rank as the second and third most harmful drugs. Ecstasy is only an eighth as harmful as alcohol, according to the scientists' analysis.Professor David Nutt, chairman of the ISCD, whose work was published in the Lancet medical journal, said the findings showed that "aggressively targeting alcohol harms is a valid and necessary public health strategy." He said they also showed that current drug classification systems had little relation to the evidence of harm. Alcohol and tobacco are legal for adults in Britain and many other countries, while drugs such as ecstasy and cannabis and LSD are often illegal and carry the threat of prison sentences. "It is intriguing to note that the two legal drugs assessed -- alcohol and tobacco -- score in the upper segment of the ranking scale, indicating that legal drugs cause at least as much harm as do illegal substances," Nutt, who was formerly head of the influential British Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), said in a statement about the study. Nutt was forced to quit the ACMD a year ago after publicly criticizing ministers for ignoring scientific advice suggesting cannabis was less harmful than alcohol. The World Health Organization estimates that risks linked to alcohol cause 2.5 million deaths a year from heart and liver disease, road accidents, suicides and cancer -- accounting for 3.8 percent of all deaths. It is the third leading risk factor for premature death and disabilities worldwide. In an effort to offer a guide to policy makers in health, policing, and social care, Nutt's team rated drugs using a technique called multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) which assessed damage according to nine criteria on harm to the user and seven criteria on harm to others. Harms to the user included things such as drug-specific or drug-related death, damage to health, drug dependence and loss of relationships, while harms to others included crime, environmental damage, family conflict, international damage, economic cost, and damage to community cohesion. Drugs were then scored out of 100, with 100 given to the most harmful drug and zero indicating no harm at all. The scientists found alcohol was most harmful, with a score of 72, followed by heroin with 55 and crack with 54. Among some of the other drugs assessed were crystal meth (33), cocaine (27), tobacco (26), amphetamine or speed (23), cannabis (20), benzodiazepines, such as Valium (15), ketamine (15), methadone (14), mephedrone (13), ecstasy (9), anabolic steroids (9), LSD (7) and magic mushrooms (5).

Well, I do believe I will now give up magic mushrooms...I was hoping they would be around 20, but 5 is too high for me....