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Drinking practices among urban adults in Israel; a cross-cultural comparison.

This article reports what is believed to be the first epidemiological data on drinking practices of Israeli adults, men and women. These data document a low prevalence of drinking in Israel. The contrast between Israel and the United States on various indicators of drinking, whether lifetime prevalence, usage within the last year, or usage within the last month, is striking. The differences in frequencies and quantities of drinking are also large. These data confirm the existence of the cross-cultural differences in drinking inferred from indirect indicators. Of the two interpretations that have been advanced to explain the absence of extensive drinking among Jews, one seems to be confirmed by the data. A direct relationship was found between religious orthodoxy and drinking experience, and an inverse relationship with frequency of drinking.