People Who Live Close To Bars Drink More Heavily
[Atlanta.CBSLocal] A new study finds that people who live close to a bar tend to drink more.
A group of Finnish researchers collected data from nearly 55,000 participants from 2000 to 2009. The study found that heavy and extreme drinking occurred when people lived about a half-mile away from the bar.
The Boston Globe reports that the chances a person will drink too much jumped to 17 percent living near a bar.
Conversely, the farther away a participant was from the bar, the less likely they would be heavy drinkers.
Posted by: Fred 2012-11-11 |