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Men over 50 biggest drinkers By Amelia Wade
MEN OVER 50 — not young people — are the biggest drinkers in New Zealand, researchers have found. But experts say that although the male 50-plus age group may be consuming more alcohol, it’s the younger generations who are drinking it more dangerously. Of the 113,345,000 glasses of alcohol consumed in New Zealand
between February last year and January this year, 28 per cent were drunk by men older than 50, said research released by the Roy Morgan market research company. The group which accounted for the smallest section of the alcohol market was women aged between 25 and 34 (8.3 per cent). And men between 18 and 24 drank only 8.3 per cent of all the alcohol drunk in New Zealand last
year, despite being recognised by the Ministry of Health as one of the groups most likely to engage in dangerous drinking behaviour. Researchers asked almost 11,500 New Zealanders over 18 how many glasses and what types of alcohol they’d drunk in the past four weeks. Alcohol Healthwatch director Rebecca Williams said it was likely that men over 50 were found to be
the biggest drinkers because they were the largest age group in the survey. ‘‘Males definitely are up there with their drinking, but among that age group there’s probably a bigger proportion of people having two or three drinks which would also help account for the significant volume,’’ Ms Williams said.
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