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The Demon Drink

Scotland鈥檚 identity is inextricably with whisky and as Brian Cox discovers, that relationship was forged during the early 19th century. Scotland changed from a rural to an industrialized society and the 1820鈥檚 and 30鈥檚 are rich with the statistics of drunkenness. In Edinburgh and Glasgow, it鈥檚 estimated there was a bar for every 130 people. For every half pint of beer the Scots consumed, they drank two pints of whisky.

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