Alcohol kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide

According to World Health Organization, alcohol kills 3.3 million people worldwide each year, more than AIDS, tuberculosis and violence combined.

 The UN health agency said, alcohol causes one in 20 deaths globally every year.”This actually translates into one death every 10 seconds,” Shekhar Saxena, who heads the WHO’s Mental Health and Substance Abuse department, told reporters in Geneva.

Source:  Yahoo News

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