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Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that drink-related deaths have more than doubled in Britain in just over a decade.
The numbers shot up from 4,144 in 1991 to 8,380 in 2004, the figures also indicated alcohol-related death rates are much higher for men than women, with the gap widening in recent years.
In 2004 the male death rate, at 17.7 per 100,000, was twice that for women (8.5), with men accounting for more than two-thirds of the total number of deaths. In 1991, the levels were 9.1 per 100,000 for men, and 5.0 for women.
The figures show, middle-aged men in 2004 had a death rate over three times that for men aged 15-34, almost twice the rate for men aged 55-74, and two and a half times the rate for men aged over 75.
A spokesman for Alcohol Concern said: "Women in higher earning professional groups are drinking more".
"Heavy sessional drinking is concentrated among younger girls but something like liver cirrhosis is a disease of chronic drinking which takes time to take effect”.
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