The impact of alcohol on poverty is more than through just the money spent on it. And the converse influence, of poverty on alcohol, has far more to it than found in the inane explanation that heavy consumption is the result of the harshness of poor lives ( Diyanath Samarasinghe:ALCOHOL AND POVERTY: some connections Published 24. 06 2009by Øystein Bakke ) A recent study conducted in 11 districts in Sri Lanka examining the link between alcohol and poverty found that 7% of men said that their alcohol expenditure was greater than their income. (Baklien & Samarasinghe, 2001).