| By Jeff Sherman OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Jeff Sherman |
| Published Dec. 1, 2007 at 11:45 p.m. |
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Drink up, Milwaukee, we've lost our title.
Forbes.com named Milwaukee America's drunkest city in 2006 saying "Milwaukee isn't just your average brewing town. It's the hardest-drinking city in America."
Now, in its December print and online edition's, Men's Health has a new drunkest list and Milwaukee has seemingly sobered up.
In its ranking of "urban inebriation," Denver tops the list as "Most Dangerously Drunk." Milwaukee falls all the way to number 10 with Anchorage, Colorado Springs, Omaha, Fargo, San Antonio, Austin, Fresno and Lubbock, Texas ahead of us in drunkenness.
Other notable cities on the list: St. Louis at 15, Madison at 28 and Chicago at 39.
How was the Men's Health listed compiled? According to the publication, they "looked at annual death rates due to alcoholic liver disease, as well as who's headed there by regularly downing five or more drinks in a sitting (CDC). Next, we factored in drunk-driving arrests (FBI) and the percentage of fatal accidents involving intoxicated motorists (U.S. Department of Transportation). Then, after tallying the MADD report card of state efforts to cut down on excessive drinking, we had our ranking and, for the state of Colorado, an invitation to AA."
Forbes, in case you were wondering, mainly used percentage of adults who had reported that they had had at least one alcoholic drink within the past 30 day. Milwaukee was at 70 percent.
Some love, others hate, these drunken lists. Either way, we're still top 10. Cheers!
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