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KMID : 0859020061200000095
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Health and Welfare Policy Forum
2006 Volume.120 No. 0 p.95 ~ p.102
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The unique alcohol culture in Denmark-a small description of alcohol culture and the initiatives to combart the alcohol intake
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Peter Gry
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Denmark has traditionally been a beer drinking nation. This has, however, not always been the case. Before the 20th century Danes drank a lot of sprits so they could endure their hardship and the cold winters. In 1917, Denmark introduced heavy taxation on distilled sprits to change people’s drinking habits, converting the Danes within six months at the end of World War I from sprit to beer drinkers. The alcohol consumption dropped remarkable, from 10 to 4 litres of pure alcohol per population (aged 15+) in 1920.
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