Alcohol now Finland's top killer

Alcohol consumption has soared in Finland following a tax cut
Alcohol has become the leading cause of death in Finland for men, and is a close second for women, a study says.

Figures for 2005 released by the state statistics agency showed alcohol killed more people aged 15 to 64 than cardiovascular disease or cancer.

Almost as many women died of alcohol-related causes as breast cancer last year.

Alcohol consumption in the Nordic country has risen steadily over the past 20 years, correspondents say.

About 2,000 Finns died of alcohol-related causes last year - 150 more than in previous years.

Each Finn drank on average the equivalent of 10.5 litres (22 pints) of pure alcohol in 2005.

Alcohol was also found to be a contributory factor in suicides, and intoxication is involved in nearly one in four deaths caused by accidents or violence, the figures showed.

Map of Finland

"If the trend continues, we are talking about a significant matter even from the point of view of the economy, because people of working age pay the pensions of the coming generations, and keep the economy competitive", Ismo Tuominen, a Ministry of Social Affairs and Health senior official, told Helsingin Sanomat newspaper.

Alcohol import quotas were reduced and a 40% cut in taxes on spirits was introduced two years ago.

Parliament is considering ways of bringing alcohol consumption under control - including health warnings, an end to bulk discounts and restrictions on TV advertising, reports say.

Another proposal is to ban retail sales of alcoholic beverages before 0900 hours. Currently, stores can sell beer and cider from 0700.

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Not surprising. It is either that or we die from depression more often than now.

>Socialism

They have nothing better to do and have genes that make them prone to alcoholism but it also helps protect against diabetes

Wouldn't you drink to death if all women in your country were pic related?

Why do you guys have depression? You're born all beautiful and powdered and you have an interesting and gorgeous country with great living conditions.

Same as us.

>They have nothing better to do
This is the no 1 problem of Finland. This place kills you inside. Even immigrants get depressed.

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jo oN KUNMA jos ei VIINA riitä ja pitää saaha pää sekaisin kaiken mualiman HANPPU mönmöillä!!! hipit töihin ja kädet irti mun auto stereoista!!!

average finnic female

You would start drinking too if you were told to accept refugees in your country and threatened to get arrested if you say anything against it

article is from 2005, there was no refugee crisis like now

DUDE FERMENTED LIQUIDS LMAO

How much is a glass at the pub in Finland? I swear if we had the prices as Denmark has we would be facing the same problem.

>google finland people
2nd picture has a fucking isis member in it
let them die

If I had to guess why.. People actively avoid each other, especially men. Basically if you initiate any human contact outside of the influence of alcohol, people consider you to be a huge weirdo. You also can not talk about your feelings at all as a man, even less than other countries.

You are alone and if not, you are to act as if you are. All the emotions get bottled up inside.

>interesting and gorgeous country

Telekinetic forehead?

there's actually 2 isis members, one's a sleeper.

>implying jewgle doesn't always promote rapefugees

Finns are quite against immigration and "racist", especially compared to other Nordic countries.

High roller tier, everyone buys 24 packs at the convenience store

4-7€ generally

lol

Your country seems decent, why so depressed?

See my estimate

Ayy lmao

you might want to go outside and stop living in your fantasy land
we are completely cucked and majority likes refugees

that's someone from SA though

Poor finngolians can't handle their beer.

>4-7€ generally
Thats cheap, not as cheap as Denmark tho, we'd start at 8-10€ equivalently over here.

cba to buy from the convenience store, i rarely drink and when i do its always during summer at the pub, enjoying a cold beer or on vacation.

>we are completely cucked and majority likes refugees
No we aren't. Compare us to Swedistan for example. Huge difference. (of course it could be better still)

How much is a 12 of domestic beer at a store? How about liquor?

So.. as A Canadian I could go in and be my charismatic self and just pull the best elven white pussy in Finland because the men are all alcoholic weirdos?

nice.

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You could have been born into a barren desert you ungrateful fuck.

>it's the daily Finland thread

Note; Not everyone in our glorious khanate is a socially awkward loner

basically 80% of every country in the world is a shit hole, not counting countryside.

Try living in england

rain
rain
rain
rain

Many women will also find you bizarre if you approach them when not in a bar.

>Nords
>ancient times they were irrelevant hut dwellers and nomads
>medieval times they raped and pillaged europe as vikings
>modern times be useless, depressed, suicidal, autistic drunkards

why are nordic people subhuman lmao?

Oh, so Russia did conquer them after all

this. temperate climate fags have do idea how good they have it

there's probably 4 rainy days a year in my desert shithole you ungrateful faggot

I fucking hate the Finnish Swedes

>Note; Not everyone in our glorious khanate is a socially awkward loner
You are an idiot if you think many, many people are not. Visit literally any other country on earth. Difference is night and day.

matadornetwork.com/abroad/8-reasons-finnish-people-wont-talk/

Russia is our greatest ally because we are Russians in denial

>via 9gag
ftfy

I'm currently on detox
the shit I have seen alone is almost enough to become complete abstinent for life
I'm still going to attend 2 months long therapy though

I only regret not being able to drink again because of alcohols historical value

>Russia is our greatest ally because we are Russians in denial

Bullshit statement. You are no Fin.

wait the finnish autist thing isn't a meme? what the fuck

Oh Christ. Never noticed.

I'm Finn who was born in Russia.

There were probably 4 sunny days this summer in Lapland.

You are posting the same exact shit when you were shilling for Russia yesterday.

We need to hang them all. Jumi wills it!

>Another proposal is to ban retail sales of alcoholic beverages before 0900 hours. Currently, stores can sell beer and cider from 0700.

As if that will accomplish anything

I have few friends that are alcoholics and it is so fucking sad to see what it's doing to them, no concentration, no ability to plan, apathetic..
Maybe alcohol is just a coping mechanism for some people especially in countries where psychiatrists are only for "loonies" and you can't get help without a social stigma

Nope. Any visitor will tell you so.

youtube.com/watch?v=RRxuF95qTyY

You have to go back.

jesus christ

Take your pick
Looks comfy compared to California AKA Hell.

I like the ending.

I don't like alcohol, they taste bad.
The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine promotes Alcohol consumption though. It sets in a land where they treat wine as sacred.

YES
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We have finally done it ! God bless!

10.5L

Ethanol is 789g/L

One standard drink (Aus) is 10g

8284.5g of ethanol a year is equivalent to 828 standard drinks per year on average. Just over 2 per day. Not a hell of a lot. But that is just the average.

Honest question. How does alcohol kill someone? Overdose? Car crash? I'm confused.

that language is absolutely byzantine.

Finnish sounds like the Geonosian language from Star Wars

>cold, dark place full of alcoholics and loners
sounds like my kind of place desu

it fucks up your internals, especially the liver. over time, alcohol abuse will simply make your organs stop working, causing death

>sounds like my kind of place desu
Move to Russia then

you all need to start eating magic mushrooms again for real

Good. They do that to thenselves. Muslim attacks are 100 times worse, because it wasn't your choice.

Reminder (((they))) push mass alcohol consumption to weaken countries and their populace. It's literally the liquid Jew.

We actually communicate through telepathy, the language thing is just a joke. We make it up as we go

Isn't Finland a lot safer than Russia though?
Finland has better gun rights and no Gopniks, right?
The only thing to worry about in Finland is rapefugee.

>strayan gets it

It's just that when we drink, we drink a lot because we dont pass out after 5 coors lights. Not saying it's a good thing

Her blog is about living in Finland as a foreigner user... She's from South Africa

Smoking is probably better for you than heavy drinking.

>the shit I have seen alone is almost enough to become complete abstinent for life
i know that feel.
alcohol is fucking poison. Just look at your average drunkard, not even heroin fucks you up this bad.
I've been an alcoholic for 10 years (sober for a year now) and am so glad that i made it out alive. So many times where i could have just fucking died.

Nigger europeans have been drinking alcohol for centuries. The water was literally poisonous half the time so you didn't have much of a choice

>Finland has better gun rights and no Gopniks, right?
You'll be safe in big cities as long as you stay out of the poor districts.

yeah that's right. but only if you are a finn.

So she must have some weird African form of Zika virus... where instead of their head turning small, it turns bigger.

I've started making my own. It's extremely cheap, extremely potent, and extremely easy.

this is how the slide into darkness begins

>fucking nords can't handle their alcoholism
Just manage it with beer instead of rotgut vodka ffs

So it is pretty much the same as it is in America.

I bet Russian farmers are more based than the average American white.

Well done!

Does this look based to you?

It's easier to buy strong alcohol here than beer from small breweries (most of the stuff in markets is garbage)

It's also too expensive to drink good beer here

That is the most based way to to get your alcohol if you like to drink.

I used to make beer but I stopped drinking altogether because I hated getting hangovers.

So buy the pisswater from supermarkets then
I know how bad it hurts to drink nothing but vodka/whiskey
Wake up, shit your guts out, start drinking, rinse repeat
At least the cheap beer will let you be relatively functional

You have to know it you live in a country where everyone from the age of 12 could buy and buys alcohol. We have the least restrictive alcohol regulation one can show up with.
Every EVERY alcoholic bavarage can be purchased at the age of 16 in luxembourg.
Everyone I know drank alcohol and got fucked up way before their 16th birthday.
I don't want to promote this behaviour but it's often followed by a dispise of alcohol. The problem with alcohol is that most people don't see it as drug or don't want to see it as it is.

But I'm sure there are other problems in regards of our youth:
The youth gets fucked up by chemical drugs: amphetamine/ ecstasy / MDMA / LSD
There is a concerning evolution in progress that should absolutely not be ignored.

>Does this look based to you?
He looks like a respectable, down to Earth hard worker. So yes, he is probably based.

You don't know what lame means until you've visited a small town Finnish nightclub on a Saturday in December

Russia has ten times the muslims % though

Oh look its the kiwi kike, fuck off back to Israel already thats what its there for

It funny how much of outcast you will be if you smoke tobacco in America, but if you smoke cannabis or drink a lot it is perfectly acceptable.

>live in Finngolia
>be blonde chink
>people are emotionless
Unsurprising.

Good. I fucking hate Finns. I had to spend ~6 months in Tampere for work. Worst period of my life. There is not a more disgusting race of """""people"""" than the Finn. He is autistic. He is drunk. He doesn't fucking talk, and when he does, you're lucky to get somewhat understandable rally english. But most of the time you just get their indecipherable gibberish, which I am CONVINCED isn't even a real fucking language.

I fucking hate Finns so god damn much, and I'm glad to hear they are killing themselves off.

>Russia has ten times the muslims % though
fug

1-1,3 euros per can

>country

Yeah, but we're also 100 times bigger. Most muslims live in the southern regions.