• Alcohol features in almost a third of all UK divorce petitions, which means one or both partner's drinking habits have contributed to the bust up.
  
  

• 13,000 violent incidents take place outside UK bars, pubs or licensed premises, every week. Most are alcohol-related.

• Recent reports suggest that almost 50% of all British teenagers know how to buy bootlegged alcohol that has been smuggled into the country.

• Alcohol robs your body of vitamin B complex, a vital group of nutrients, deficiency of which can cause skin damage, diarrhoea and depression.

• Booze is believed to feature as a reason behind 25% of all school exclusions in the UK.

• Women may find their reaction to booze is affected by hormone level changes that occur during the menstrual cycle.

• An average 12% of males and 7% of females in the 16-19 age group show signs of alcohol dependency (source: Office of Population and Census Surveys).

• Alcohol related reasons and excuses are responsible for roughly 14 million lost working days in the UK every year.

• Booze features in almost 40% of all domestic violence incidents in the UK.

• Every Christmas in the UK, 10,000 people seek help for alcohol-related problems.

Updated: 06/06/2011