Trends in alcohol consumption patterns 1978–1989
John C DuffyUniversity of Edinburgh
FOREWORD
For some years discussion of public policy related to alcohol use and abuse has relied heavily on theories developed in the 1950s that linked national per capita consumption with the extent of heavy drinking. Based on the work of the French demographer, Sully Ledermann, a school of thought developed which maintained that a rise or fall in national per capita consumption would automatically lead to a consequent rise or fall in the proportion of heavy drinkers in the population. This concept has been called the 'control of...