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New study shows Belgian workers drink too much
According to a health study undertaken by human resource company Securex, close to one in seven Belgian workers are drinking beyond healthy limits.
The survey of a thousand workers revealed that 15 percent are at a much greater risk of suffering liver disease, cardiovascular disorders, cancer, depression and even traffic accidents because of too much alcohol consumption.
The latest figures are cause for concern. A similar study conducted in 2010 showed a decrease in the percentage of workers who abuse alcohol, a drop attributed to smoking bans in restaurants and bars. Securex says the new results show that many issues driving unsafe alcohol consumption are likely caused by more than just the workplace, and that Belgian society is too tolerant of drinking.
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Wouldn't it occur to you that alcohol consumption is generally related to the state of the society itself, namely that many people lost their job and live in poverty and that the ones who do have a job see their work conditions being degraded every day? "Belgian society too tolerant of drinking"... This is simply an appaling assertion. Belgium is not the puritan USA and thanks God if I dare say. And what you imply, namely that there should be repression of this alleged exagerated "tolerance" is simply typical of the "police State" that accompanied the "laissez-faire" society in the XIXth century: where the rich got super rich at the expense of the poor against whom the army or police were unleashed whenever they dared to protest about it. That a society would be tolerant is just wonderful and shouldn't be changed. But a lot should be done for at least continental Europe to go back to its social capitalist model and get rid of this new form of colonialism based on hyper financialist capitalism...