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=British drinking culture =

Britain has the most developed pub culture of all modern countries. The pub culture is based on drinking beer in a noisy environment, where it’s too loud to have an intelligent conversation. In Britain, a pub is a place where social groups meet, where businessmen network and where all go to relax. media type="custom" key="9097128" align="right"Professional meetings are often held in restaurants, and succeed by a drop on a pub later on the evening. A lot of people use pubs, instead of their homes, as a place to hang out with friends. Many pubs also have small or large televisions where guests can watch football matches and other sport. [1]

Britain’s population rather meet in pubs than restaurants or at home.

Britain can be called a nation of drinkers, and cheap alcohol is leading to drunkenness and [|binge drinking]. Their legal blood alcohol limit for driving is 80 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood, and Britain is one of the lands with highest limit, among the European countries. [2]

In 2009, 61,4 million people lived in Britain. [3] 15 million of these 61,4 visit a pub at least once a week. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Finding a pub is neither a problem, since you in <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Britain there are around 57 000 of them. [4]

<span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">"British people just don't know how to drink." says the barmaid, Rowan Coleman.[5]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">A new culture called the trash culture, is growing in Britain.[1]

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 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in;">**Drinking facts:** ||
 * * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">13 000 violent incidents take place in and around bars and pubs each week in Britain.
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">88% of criminal damage is caused by alcohol.
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">150 000 people are hospitalised due to alcohol.
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">The cost of alcohol related crime is £7,3 billion a year.
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Tax revenue from alcohol amounts to £9 billion every year.
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">The British Crime Survey shows that 47 per cent of violent crimes are committed under the influence of alcohol.
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">One in eight deaths among young men in Britain is caused by alcohol abuse. [6] ||

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=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Contents:** =

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- British drinking culture
====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Teenager's relationship to alcohol ==== ====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Parent's influence on their children ====

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Sources:**

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