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Fortune
Beth Greenfield

HISTORICAL FACTS: Alcohol use killed 2 6 million people worldwide says who - The Untold Story

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Alcohol consumption contributed to 2.6 million deaths worldwide annually, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization, with psychoactive drug use responsible for another 0.6 million.

Together, those numbers represented 4.7% of all deaths total worldwide.

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