Drinking among young women to "surge"

The amount of alcohol drunk by young women will surge over the next five years, according to research. As the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk reports, market analyst Datamonitor http://www.datamonitor.com looked at consumer surveys in Europe and found that UK women aged 18 to 24 drank the most. It predicts that they will be drinking 291 litres a year by 2009 - the equivalent of about three large glasses of wine a day - up from 216 litres in 2004. This would mean that alcohol consumption among young women had doubled in a decade and they would be drinking more than men.