Consumption of Drinks in America We give some interesting...

Consumption of Drinks in America We give some interesting figures about per capita consumption of Drinks in America in 1958 as appeared in the magazine 'Listener' July- August 1960 issue. Milk 140.8 qt. Coffee 114.8 qt. Beer 59.2 qt. Soft drinks 47.2 qt. Tea 27.2 qt. Frozen fruit juices 5.2 qt. Distilled spirit 4.8 qt. Wine 3.6 qt. Vegetable and tomato juice 3.6 qt.

In 1958 the population of the United States drank 29,944,020,000 gallons of Alcohol, 5,053,000,000 gallons of milk and 4,919,000,000 gallons of coffee. (Figures from the West Virginia issue).

Here we also give the figures as appeared in the magazine, 'Listener' July-August 1960 issue, concerning Retail Stores in America, wiz Alcohol Shops : Retail Alcohol Dealers 4,27,881 Grocery Stores 2,79,440 Service Stations 1,84,747 Liquor Stores 31,240 Women's Ready to wear Store 29,788 Furniture Stores 23,465 Shoe Stores 23,847 Depot Stores 2,761 Yearly Expenses in America We give below the figures from "Listener" September-October 1960, about "How Americans spent their money in the year".

Clothing $ 20,800,000,000 Gambling $ 20,009,000,000 Education $ 19,700,000,000 Recreation $ 15,900,000,000 Automobiles $ 14,500,000,000 Alcoholic Beverages $ 10,700,000,000 Tobacco $ 6,000,000,000 Religion and Welfare $ 3,600,000,000 According to the figures of England, Japan and America, given above, we can come to the following conclusion for the information and guidance of Pakistanis for discarding unnecessary habits and to check the unnecessary wastage on gambling, drinking, tea, smoking and other harmful addiction : (a) No doubt according to the figures given above, Englishmen who are so rich as compared with us, drink 247,000,000 cups of tea per day which works out to an average of 21 cups per head as they have a population of 5 crores against which we guess that Pakistanis must be taking many more cups of tea.

We Pakistanis takes about 400,000,000 cups if we take 4 cups per day per head. Japanese smoked 134,900,000,000 cigarettes in 1961, and 126,500,000,000 in 1960 against which the number of smokers of cigarettes in Pakistan is increasing by 14% per year while its population is increasing by 28 % per year, as per para 17 above, and according to the Estimates of the Planning Commission (as per Para 17 above) Pakistanis would be consuming 30 thousand million cigarettes by 1975.