Budweiser: The #1 Beer Responsible for ER Visits

CBSNEWS: Budweiser is the number one beverage behind alcohol-related emergency room visits, a small study conducted by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health revealed.

"Recent studies reveal that nearly a third of injury visits to Level I trauma centers were alcohol-related and frequently a result of heavy drinking," lead study author David Jernigan, director of The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said in a press release. "Understanding the relationship between alcohol brands and their connection to injury may help guide policy makers in considering taxation and physical availability of different types of alcohol given the harms associated with them."

Studies like these are just completely stupid. Rarely is enough data taken to come to any type of realistic conclusion. Furthermore, I would not have expected Budweiser to be #1 if I had to guess. My guesses would be one of the following: Natty Ice, Natty Light, or Keystone Light -- I don't see Keystone Ice very often. These beers of course are college beers and as a current sophomore wasting 50K a year, I am aware there is some bias attached to these guesses. However, I believe pretty simple logic does happen to make them solid picks.

Let's break this down:

• Binge drinking is the cause for alcohol-related ER visits
• This type of drinking is most often practiced at colleges and universities all across the country
• Natty Ice, Natty Light, and Keystone Light are considered the most commonly found beers at places of higher learning
• So, in turn, these beers are binge drank the most which naturally will make them the leaders in stomach pumps at the local hospital

It's pure logic. Natty Ice tops Budweiser in alcohol by volume (5.9% vs. 5%), and the other two light beers can be binged much easier than Bud. They are also the two cheap beers of choice for the female race. Don't know where she got a bottle of Natty Light but she makes it work.

While I do not think Budweiser deserves to be #1, I have to include this commercial in this post. I just cried watching it. Think/say what you want, but this is as pure as it gets.