Heavy drinking reportedly causes one in ten early adult deaths in America. A report released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that liquor has to be blamed for premature mortality throughout the nation.

Figures show that from 2006 to 2010 there were around 88,000 deaths annually. This number included deaths due to reasons like violence, alcohol poisoning and car crashes and health effects of prolonged overconsumption of alcohol like liver disease, heart disease and breast cancer. Usually due to all this people die at a very early age of around 30 years on an average. If we work around this figure we generate that a total of about 2.5 million years of potential life is lost due to this alcohol consumption.

Alcoholic liver disease topped the list of all alcohol-related deaths, causing 14,364 in a year. Next were motor vehicle crashes (12,460), suicide (8,179) and homicide (7,756).

A previous study done on the same grounds stated that 75,000 deaths and 2.3 million years of life were lost in 2001. The author of this study further stated that these figures may be on the low side because they are based on self-reporting.

Considering all these studies it was stated that one in ten deaths are caused due to alcohol of people around 30 years of average age.

"One in 10 is a big number. One of the issues with alcohol that is particularly tragic is the extent to which it gets people in the prime of their lives", says Dr. Robert Brewer, who leads the alcohol program at the CDC and is an author of the studypublished Thursday in Preventing Chronic Disease.