From: glen mccready 
  To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org
  Cc: bostic@bsdi.com
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:14:36 -0500

Geez.. if these are daily figures, I'm a little below average.

Hmm.. 355mL / beer, 5% alcohol by volume, ~17.75mL alcohol per beer.
2.76 gallons ~= 10446mL .. that's about 588 beers.  Not too shabby.
Probably have to triple that for you Americans out there.

More hmm... 1 floz ~= 29.57mL (makes you think a beer rips you off
a bit, huh?).. ~353 shots.  Those rhum and cokes are looking better
and better all the time...

	glen

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

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

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.