St. Louis: Sixth Drunkest City

By Chad Garrison Thu., Feb. 4 2010 at 1:45 PM

Categories: Bars, News

Books have been written about our love affair with booze, and all we get is a lousy No. 6 ranking?

Next month Men's Health will come out with its listing of the "100 Drunkest Cities in America."

As of right now, the magazine's website has yet to publish the findings, but USA Today has the scoop.

Frankly, Daily RFT is a little disappointed with the results. St. Louis comes in a measly No. 6.

Have the authors of this study ever been to a Blues game, next weekend's Mardi Gras Parade or any one of our smoky dens of sin?

The answer? Not likely.

The poll based its results on the following purported harbingers of drunkenness, all of which can tracked down from the comfort of one's desk:

death rates from alcoholic liver disease
auto accidents involving alcohol
frequency of binge-drinking in the past month
number of DUI arrests
severity of DUI penalties

In other words, the data precluded Men's Health from ever having to get gutter-drunk with the locals in St. Louis. That said, we'll keep considering ourselves No. 1.

Here's the top ten drunkest cities per Men's Health: