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People Who Live Close To Bars Drink More Heavily
2012-11-11
[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

#7  The Boston Globe reports that the chances a person will drink too much jumped to 17 percent living near a bar.

Yeah, they're real sharp over at the Globe...
Posted by: tu3031   2012-11-11 22:52  

#6  What's really weird is after a week or two it seems perfectly normal for folks to drop by the daquiri bar at 11 am.

I mean hell if everyone's a drunk no ones a drunk, there's an ancient reality-distortion field around Orleans Parish.

Mother's is the only sane place.
Posted by: Shipman   2012-11-11 15:13  

#5  We have bars here that don't even have DOORS! Even open while the city was flooded by Katrina.
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-11-11 14:31  

#4  I love New Orleans.... only place where you can politely ask a cop to hold your beer while you tie your shoes. But yeah, there's something to the argument. I love New Orleans, yeah it's 9 am on Sunday, is there a 2 for one?
Posted by: Shipman   2012-11-11 12:26  

#3  
Posted by: Cleatch Cheatch8113   2012-11-11 11:56  

#2  Perhaps bars are being built in areas known to have heavy drinkers? Such as near colleges.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-11-11 11:43  

#1  Another way to put it, heavy drinkers move nearer to bars (and thus avoid DUIs).

Effect/cause, cause/effect, what's the difference when you've got a narrative to form to justify a study that nobody should have paid a dime for in the first place.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-11-11 11:42  

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