You can lose up to TWO YEARS of your life to alcohol – how does your town compare?

Mirror

By Patrick Scott

May 12, 2016

UNITED KINGDOM – Startling new figures reveal the average man in England loses 12 months of his life to drinking while the figure for women is 5.6 months

Would you rather give up alcohol or lose a year of your life?

It’s the type of question you might have spent time pondering with your mates, but a study by Public Health England shows that this choice is actually an alarming reality.

If all alcohol-related deaths among men in England had been prevented during 2012-14 then male life expectancy in the country would have been boosted by a whopping 12 MONTHS, according to the research.

If women gave up the booze then they’d stand to live an extra 5.6 months on average.

Alcohol consumption is a contributing factor to hospital admissions and deaths across a diverse range of health conditions in England.

Public Health England estimates that alcohol costs the NHS about £3.5billion per year and society as a whole £21billion annually.

Blackpool had the highest amount of estimated lost life in the country for men, at two years and 2.5 months.

Corby in Northamptonshire saw the highest amount of life lost for women at just over a year.

Babergh in Suffolk was the only place in the country where women were estimated to lose more life from drinking alcohol than men were.

Although these figures are startling, there are signs of gradual improvement when England is taken as a whole.

The number of months of life lost due to alcohol among men has fallen by 4% since 2006-08, while for women it fell by 5%.