Reflective boozing: Scotland launches ‘Drinking Mirror’ mobile app to curb women’s drinking

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Published time: January 09, 2013 13:30
Edited time: January 09, 2013 20:40

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Drinking has become a massive problem among Scottish women, the country’s government says. In fact it is so serious that local officials decided to launch a Drinking Mirror - a special mobile app designed to stop women from over-consuming alcohol.

The new Android app is aimed to help Scottish women drink less and prevent illnesses caused by alcohol abuse, by showing them just how their appearance will chance in 10 years if they drink 10 glasses of wine per week.

The Scottish Health Secretary’s office introduced the free app on Tuesday. The initiative is part of the government’s campaign named “Drop a Glass Size” aimed at persuading women to reduce the number of glasses of wine they drink weekly.

The Drinking Mirror app is designed to show your future face depending on how much you drink. You simply make a self-portrait, then and answer how many 175 ml glasses of wine you drink every week. Then the app makes some calculations and voila! It creates an uglier, older and much less attractive reddened and swollen version of you.

Even though the app creates images that can be far from truth, the result is still scary enough to make drinkers reconsider their habits.

According to Health Secretary Alex Neil, “Scotland has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol…” The number of alcohol-related deaths among women aged between 30 and 44 has doubled in the last 20 years, while the chronic liver disease and cirrhosis death rate has tripled.

Comments (9)

Agent Provocateur (unregistered) 10.01.2013 13:58

Ten glasses of wine per week hardly qualifies as drinking problem. That would make it 1.4 glasses per day. It's time to revise these "scientific findings" and address hard liquor abuse which has become a serious problem across Eu, not only Scotland.

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JJ (unregistered) 10.01.2013 12:21

@Drink Up: It's true, the Government is most countries give the people a
horrible life and the sad thing is when they turn to drinking and smoking the
government makes a ton of money on the taxes for that too. And I dont' blame
them for drinking, any sane person would to escape their meager life the
government feels that common people should have, which is really not much
but being a slave, and someone's pocket book they can steal from at every
turn.
Too bad, I like Scotish Women too, they have guts, but I do think the
Scots men look better in a skirt (little joke there !)

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DRINK UP (unregistered) 10.01.2013 03:35

The Nanny State is driving everybody to drink. Wretched tyrannical governments. Democracy is Fascism spelled backwards.

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