According to Reuters, over the weekend published in "Lancet" on the a study said young adults in the Russian half of the deceased are due to illegal consumption of alcohol caused by low-cost, the Government must take urgent action to reverse this trend.

"Russia in recent years, excessive alcohol consumption, especially men, are between the ages of 15-54 nearly half of the deceased person's cause of death," wrote the article.

research in three industrial cities - Tomsk, Barnaul and byske carried out. Study said, "by the liver, larynx, liver disease , resulting in the death of pancreatic diseases, to a large extent on or is derived from the alcohol-induced diseases. "

study found, tuberculosis and pneumonia The reason why a high mortality rate, to a certain extent because of increased risk of infection, decreased immunity or cure the possibility of a decline.

studies have shown that 15-54 year-old Russian male mortality rate five times higher than in Western Europe, female mortality rate three times higher than in Western Europe.

data show that Russian men in this age of the deceased about 3 / 4 is directly or indirectly caused by alcohol, the number of dead in the female 1 / 2.