Would you rather give up alcohol or lose more than one-and-a-half years of your life?

It’s the type of question you might have spent time pondering with your mates but a study by Public Health England shows that this choice is actually an alarming reality.

If all alcohol-related deaths among men in Manchester had been prevented during 2012-14 then male life expectancy in the city would have been boosted by a whopping 19.2 MONTHS according to the research.

If women in Manchester gave up the booze then they’d stand to live an extra 8.3 months.

This figure for men is the seventh highest for any area in England behind Blackpool and Barrow-in-Furness in first and second, however it is decreasing.

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Men - Months of life lost to alcohol, alcohol-related deaths between 2012-14

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In 2011-13 it was estimated that men lost 20.1 months of life due to alcohol in Manchester while in 2006-08 they lost 22.9 months.

The figure for women is also showing signs of improvement with the 8.3 months lost in 2012-14 a 13% drop compared to the 9.5 months lost in 2006-08.

Elsewhere Greater Manchester women in Rochdale lost the most life in the area with 8.9 months. This was also the seventh highest figure in England.

Alcohol consumption is a contributing factor to hospital admissions and deaths across diverse range of health conditions in England. Public Health England estimates that alcohol costs the NHS about £3.5 billion per year and society as a whole £21 billion annually.

Women - Months of life lost to alcohol, alcohol-related deaths between 2012-14

Public Health England

In 2012-14 the average Englishman lost a year of his life because of alcohol-related diseases while the average woman lost 5.6 months.

Blackpool had the highest amount of estimated lost life in the country for men (at two years and 2.5 months) while Corby in Northamptonshire saw the highest amount of life lost for women at just over a year.

Babergh in Suffolk was the only place in the country where women were estimated to lose more life from drinking alcohol than men were.