The graphical evidence suggests that the temporal pattern of Russian alcoholism mortality for males and females fits closely with changes in vodka scales per capital(Figures 2 and 3).These trends were removed by means of afirst-order differencing procedure. After prewhitening the cross-correlations between beverage-specific alcohol sales and alcoholism mortality time series were inspected. This indicated that there was a statistically significant cross-correlation between total per capita alcohol sales, vodka and beer sales and alcoholism mortality for males and females at lag zero (Tables 1 and 2). At the same time, there was no cross-correlation between the level of wine sales and alcoholism mortality rates.