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Living in a state of drunken denial

To write that the 2014 Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health paints a rosy picture of Kenya would be an understatement.

Of course Kenyans, in their characteristic style of comparing themselves with the worst examples, will deny that the situation is bad, and will cite countries where people literally stagger to their graves.

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