Alcoholic addictions of many Russians remain invariable throughout centuries – from all hard liquors they still prefer vodka. There is invariable also its structure – water and ethyl alcohol, but here its cost very much differs. Therefore the bulk of fans to drink prefers to buy the cheapest alcohol, the effect is gained the same. But for all that, as cheap, and expensive alcohol is noxious to health, cheap after all constitutes big danger.
From where cheap alcohol undertakes
It is no secret that the prime cost of vodka is several times lower, than that cost which is specified on price tags. The lion's share of its price is made by excises, transportation and marketing costs. Only at the expense of an exception of an excise and marketing component it is possible to reduce the selling price of the same vodka, at least, twice.
Such simple arithmetics pushes some businessmen to the decision to make or deliver illegal alcohol at low prices. Illicit trafficking in cheap alcoholic products consists of the drinks delivered from adjacent territories, illegal shops located in the territory of the home region, and hard liquors of a home cooking – moonshine and chacha. Their low price does them, certainly, attractive to consumers.
Despite the titanic efforts shown by law enforcement agencies, today cheap alcohol it is possible to get freely both in big shops, and in the stalls and pavilions selling alcohol "under the counter". Persons interested can even order it in lots, having used phones which can quietly be found among numerous announcements in social networks.
Why cheap alcohol is harmful
It is necessary to begin with popular wisdom that not alcohol, and its quantity is harmful. If the person can buy one bottle of expensive alcohol or three bottles for the same money cheap, he, of course, will choose the second. At the same time if in the first case, it was also limited to one bottle, in the second it, most likely, will drink all three. And the main harm from alcohol consists in its excessive use.
Besides, despite almost identical composition, quality of purification of alcohol in expensive drinks after all is much higher. As a rule, it is exposed to reusable cleaning as a result of which the level of methanol or ethanol decreases and the harmful fusel oils impacting to cheap alcohol a peculiar flavor and most ruinously acting on a liver are removed. Consequences of the use of expensive alcohol also exist, but they after all are less painful. Probability and the fact that in cheap alcohol ethyl alcohol can be replaced with technical analogs is high. As a result of the use of low-quality cheap alcohol not only the liver suffers, consequences of it can be the most unpredictable – well if business is limited only to food poisoning, but also cases of lethal outcomes are frequent. The organism is simply not able to sustain shock doses of poison.