315 days during their life, the British quit excessive alcohol consumption, according to a survey by the English association Macmillan Cancer Support carried out on 2000 adults. In fact, respondents said they lost almost a year in having the hangover.
This association has launched an event, “Go Sober for October” (be sober in October), the goal of which is simple: not to drink for a month, to raise and donate money to support the fight against cancer. To highlight the value of sobriety, she conducted a hangover survey.
Alcohol, a brake on success
Hangovers seem to occupy a lot of the time of the British who do not seem to hold alcohol or its side effects well. Indeed, according to the findings of this survey, the majority (52%) of respondents said that the most annoying aspect of a hangover is feeling sick when more than a quarter of ‘of them (27%) mentioned that it was a waste of time.
Indeed, 10% of Britons missed a job interview, and 8% a marriage because they were not in good shape because of a hangover. A quarter of them even said that because of the hangover, they did not share fulfilling sex with their partners. 13% of those interviewed confessed to having missed a first romantic date and 6% a funeral.
Thanks to this survey, we also learn that women have hangovers that last longer, around nine hours, compared to seven for men. And that the youngest (18-24 year olds) are most likely to sleep almost eight hours to recover from their abuse.alcohol.
“This survey reveals that hangovers are a waste of time that forces people to miss out on everything from romance to their dream job,” concludes Hannah Redmond, the association’s sales manager.
Alcohol, a real public health problem
More than 200 illnesses are linked to the consumption ofalcohol : infectious diseases, traffic accidents, injuries, homicides, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes … Pathologies or accidents which total 5.9% of annual deaths. 1 in five deaths in the world results from the ravages of alcohol, informs the World Health Organization (WHO) on its site. 3.3 million people died in 2012, against 2.5 million in 2005. And 320,000 young people aged 15 to 29 die each year from alcohol-related causes, recalls the WHO.
