[Isamu]

Heavy drinking. Given this is France, what is heavy drinking?

[batty_alex]

It's defined in the article. Around 4-5 standard drinks a day for Men or 3 for Women. Which is quite a bit of drinking.

[JamesBarney]

That's how the WHO defines problematic drinking. That is not the bar the study uses. The study uses the bar of being hospitalized for alcohol use disorder.

[teamhappy]

Where 1 "Canadian standard drink" is 1 bottle of beer, 1 glass of wine or 1 shot of liquor.

Source: http://www.rethinkyourdrinking.ca/what-is-a-standard-drink/

[Steve44]

That shot size is 43ml so 5 shots totals 215ml of 40% spirits. In the UK a single is 25ml so it's equivalent of 8.6 'singles' / 4.3 'doubles'.

[teamhappy]

Didn't see the unit, sorry.

So, 1 standard drink = 1 bottle of beer = 1 reasonable glass of wine = 2 shots of liquor.

[randcraw]

But I can easily see a retired man downing 4-5 beers a day, especially when hanging around a pub or social or country club all day.

[Isamu]

Thank you, I went straight to the paper where the definition was a bit more hidden.

That is interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_drink