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20 Mar
Was 1830 a Particularly Rough year?

Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 03:05:26 -0800
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Was 1830 a Particularly Rough year?

Forwarded-by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
From: CSH Little <70412.2641@compuserve.com>

Average consumption in equivalent gallons of ethanol per adult charted
across the last 3 centuries, in the U.S., as reported in Scientific
American, April 1996.

Year        Gallons of
               alcohol consumed.
--------------------------------
1790       5.8 gallons
1830       7.1 gallons
1840       3.1 gallons
1869       2.1 gallons
1890       2.1 gallons
1900       2.1 gallons
1920       0.9 gallons
1940       1.56 gallons
1980       2.76 gallons

[It looks to me like fighting the British must be thirsty business... unless,  
of course, it's those orchestral canons that drove people to drink!  -psl]
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