I've always thought Toledo was not as bad as Columbus/Cleveland/Cincinnati, but maybe I'm wrong. Toledo ranked 22nd drunkest city in America, just one spot behind New Orleans:

 

21. New Orleans, LA

22. Toledo, OH

72. Cincinnati, OH

73. Cleveland, OH

83. Columbus, OH

 

http://www.menshealth.com/drunkestcities2010/

 

ANY list that puts Fresno over Milwaukee is absurd in my book.  They put Anaheim over Milwaukee.  Men's Health lists are always suspect.

Considering the dreariness of Toledo winters, even if no one drank in the warmer months, the annual average probably still would come in pretty high! :-D

Which make me question that list even more.  Colorado Springs?  Over MILWAUKEE?!?!?!  If that's ONE thing Milwaukee does...it's drink.

I went to a wedding in Wisconsin just a few years back.  WHOA can those boys and girls drink... every last one of them.

First, anything that comes from Men's Health magazine is crap designed to sell their lousy periodical based on trolling for gullible newspaper reporters.

 

That said, that "study" isn't really measuring consumption; it's supposedly measuring the negative effects of drinking.  To wit:

body count caused by booze-fueled car crashes (Fatality Analysis Reporting System), the number of arrests made for driving under the influence (FBI), the number of people who admit to binge drinking in the last month (CDC), and the severity of DUI penalties (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)

Places like Colorado Springs may have a higher ranking, but that's because the midwest is populated by Professional Drinkers.

Congrats to Toledo!

C-Dawg on this article = Duck on Junebug.

Go Toledo!

Most of the top cities are "new" cities that are mostly sprawl, so they have a lot of DUIs per drinker thereby skewing the results to disfavor sprawl cities.

wait, havent you said athens is the drunkest city in ohio? on multiple occasions?

well they certainly do drink in toledo and i do like the criteria they looked at, but its just a magazine compilation, it's not a scientific study. fresno? really? and to leave college towns off the list defeats the whole point of it.

 

btw the editor of mens health magazine is a former clevelander.

Our statistical sobriety checkpoint shows that the inebriated people there have one of the highest death rates from alcoholic liver disease (per data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). In fact, Fresno was near the top in every measure of dangerous drinking, including the body count caused by booze-fueled car crashes (Fatality Analysis Reporting System), the number of arrests made for driving under the influence (FBI), the number of people who admit to binge drinking in the last month (CDC), and the severity of DUI penalties (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety). So remember: Better to take your medicine than let it take you.

 

I think the important thing to know is that the reason perhaps Fresno is #1 is the fact it has the most DUI's.  Notice most of the "newish" sunbelt cities are towards the top of DRIVING under the influence while more walkable places are towards the bottom.