Given marijuana's popularity in this country, the consumption of more dangerous drugs could actually decrease if pot were purchased at a liquor store rather than on the street corner where heroin and crack are sold.
Legislation to increase the country's rate of consumption tax, enacted last August, states that the government must try to achieve nominal economic growth of about 3 per cent and real growth of about 2 per cent -- implying inflation of about 1 per cent -- before going ahead with the tax hikes.
The country bans possession and consumption of both hard and soft drugs, except for limited medical purposes.
In time, the Soviet leaders realised that, even in a populous country, such heedless consumption of human resources was damaging.
According to the World Heath Organization report, the country topping the tables of annual alcohol consumption per person is Moldova.
Half of the 2 billion tons of coal China burns each year, accounting for two-thirds of the country's energy consumption, feeds industry.
In broader terms, Defra says the UK food and drink industry accounted for 11% of the country's energy consumption, excluding transport, in 2002.
If Chinese government wants to serious tackle the income inequality while helping boost consumption of the country, they have to work on a much larger scale.
The initiative lies within the framework of an overall project aimed to curtail consumption of alcohol and cigarettes in the country within the next few years, Ria Novosti reported.
Together, the amount of energy tied to water consumption totals just under half of all the energy this country uses.
In 2006, the first year of the plan, the country's reduction in energy intensity, which measures energy consumption per unit of economic output, was a mere 1.23%.
Which is to say, the Gross Domestic Product of a country is equal to its total Consumption (personal and business) plus Investments plus Government Spending plus Net Exports.
Kerala tops the list in terms of per capita liquor consumption in the country.
In addition, Hurricane Sandy temporarily curbed consumption in the northeastern part of the country, not only due to less driving but thousands of canceled airline flights, he added.
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Iraq's oil production has increased by more than 40% in the past five years to 3 million barrels of oil a day (still below the 1979 high of 3.5 million set by Iraq's state-owned companies), but a full 80% of this is being exported out of the country while Iraqis struggle to meet basic energy consumption needs.
Iraq's oil production has increased by more than 40% in the last five years to 3 million barrels of oil a day (still below the 1979 high of 3.5 million set by Iraq's state-owned companies), but a full 80% of this is being exported out of the country while Iraqis struggle to meet basic energy consumption needs.
But as China's economy continues to grow, so does the country's energy consumption, and with it the scale of the challenge that the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) faces.
The team measured the lead levels in each country-category and calculated the lead intake on the basis of daily consumption.
That slice of American agriculture is fundamental and really needs to continue to be emphasized and grown as a part of the entire food production and consumption system in the country.
Bioenergy is also a crucial element in the country's energy sector, supplying almost 20% of total primary energy consumption.
Chicken is the cheapest and most popular source of protein in the country because there are no religious restrictions against its consumption.
The average consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in Mexico, the country with the highest death rates among larger nations, was 24 ounces per day.
Indonesia's growth rates have exceeded 6% in recent years, with a domestic consumption driving a boom and largely shielding the country from the worst of the global downturn.
Some commentators feel that the Chinese investment boom must eventually run out of steam, whether for lack of good projects to finance or because the country will shift to a more consumption-led model.
Legalizing drugs and making them more readily available would, in either country, increase the number of addicts, lead to more street crime to feed consumption habits, destroy scores of families, make people less productive and more dependent, and empower criminals by surrendering the fight.
The latest round is that the corn industry wants to change the usual name from HFCS (which has bad connotations now that half the country seems to be blaming it for obesity, something caused by an excess of caloric consumption over caloric use, not any specific foodstuff) to corn sugar.
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With incomes rising quickly in the country and people adopting more western lifestyles, consumers are taking up cigarettes as the preferred choice of consumption of tobacco.
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Yes, he says, the country is rapidly urbanizing and modernizing and, yes, Chinese middle class consumption will surpass that of the United States over the next few years.
He is unimpressed by those who say that economists have been advocating similar consumption taxes for half a century without persuading the government of a single industrial country to adopt one.
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