How Britain scaled Peak Booze: 2004 marked the high-water mark in our relationship with alcohol

By 2004, the average Briton was drinking nearly three times as much as they had in the Fifties - and Chrissie Giles was above average. True, she lacked self-control. But, as she explains, our growing thirst has been manipulated by canny brands and a changing society

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