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>>110087
>How do you estimate the prevalence of homebrew, moonshine, smuggled alcohol, surrogate alcohol etc. when calculating per capita alcohol consumption?
>every four houses outside of the cities have vodka distilleries
I'm pretty sure that some sort of distiller can be found in any large enough neighbourhood in rural area. They don't produce vodka, though, it's not an industrial thing. However, as far I am aware, the last time the average distiller was in use is probably around 15-20 years ago, if not in the time of prohibition 30 years ago. Consumption, naturally, has been dropping and evolving during recent years, along with improvement of living standards - vodka is no longer a popular drink any more. It's not as beofre cheap either.
Though, on the flip side, there's a problem with medical-use alcohol, some of which can be sold unregistered or unchecked, or even counterfeit. And there have been some incidents involving improperly produced liquids, with casualties. How do other countries manage and account consumption of "non-recreational" liquids? Back in the USSR alcohol was at some times more scarce then the others, thus a lot of legends of people actually drinking "everything that burns". The idea of "alcohol culture" as a "national treasure", which is supported widely on international level and by "independent" organizations, actually hurts the situation as much as social problems do. People have learned to fight it.
Obvious problem with WHO is that they try to account everything by one standard value, because practically it is impossible to use any other method on international scale. Every country has it's own management, laws, data manipulation, local traditions and so on. I have no idea how would any country account anything beyond simplest figures, if they don't have strong excise policy, monopoly on production or something like that. If that wasn't enough, there are even more "experts" and "empirical data" to be introduced to final figures. And then these numbers are introduced to news agencies, who are so unreliable, they can use legends, stereotypes and hopelessly obsolete data on regular basis.
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