On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, gts wrote:

> Craig Coonrad wrote:
>
> > There is a co-relation between the amount of time a group of
> > people have been drinking alcohol (I'm not talking about
> > rotten fruit) and the incidence of alcohol addiction and
> > other negative consequences that go with that.
> >
> > Some relative examples are as follows:
> >
> > culture                 exposure to alcohol     alcoholism
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > medditeranean           long term               low
> > northern europeans      med term                med
> > American Indian         short term              high
>
> Do you have sources for this? Where is the data that supports this table?
> Thanks.

Wolff, P.H. Ethnic Differences in Alcohol Sensitivity. Science, 175:4020,
1972.