During this festive season people in the UK will drink more than 600 million units of alcohol according to research, this includes Christmas day itself and all the Christmas parties, which will see people drink the equivalent of 265 million pints, 602 million shots of vodka or 286 million glasses of mulled wine. The research was done by alcohol awareness charity Drinkaware who also found that virtually half of those surveyed were most likely to drink, three to four units a day for men and two to three units for women, which is more than the recommended daily guidelines.

Drinkaware has as unveiled touch screens in the centres of London, Glasgow, Leeds and Birmingham, for people to enter what they have had to drink in the last 24 hours. The charity has said “it believes this will be the largest ever interactive assessment of the nation’s drinking habits, allowing people to compare their drinking with the rest of the nation”.

With more than one in three people intending to go to three or more Christmas parties over the festive season the amount of units estimated may actually be an underestimate.

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