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Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2013 May;44(5):459–464. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2013.01.007

Table 3.

Burden of heavy drinking on low-income households

Year	Upper limit of lowest quintile of Household income ($)	10 drinks a day as % of lowest-quintile income
Year	Upper limit of lowest quintile of Household income ($)	Cheap spirits	Bacardi	Gallo Chablis	Guinness	Budweiser
1967	3,000	25.66	35.57	19.66	—	25.14
1970	3,688	21.75	30.62	19.05	—	22.99
1975	5,000	16.60	23.78	18.51	—	21.80
1980	7,478	12.02	16.52	16.90	41.45	19.53
1985	9,941	10.00	14.33	14.23	35.72	18.48
1990	12,500	7.98	12.87	12.93	33.71	17.02
1995	14,400	7.06	12.20	13.10	28.80	17.20
2000	17,920	5.62	10.32	11.95	23.51	15.06
2005	19,178	5.35	11.09	11.50	23.89	15.84
2010	20,000	5.36	12.02	11.99	28.67	17.30

Note: Spirits prices are from Pennsylvania, Guinness price is from Washington; Gallo and Budweiser prices are extrapolated from 1995 U.S. average American Chamber of Commerce Research Association prices using the beer and wine off-premises consumer price indexes.