There were sharp trends in the time series data across the study period.These trends were removed by means of a first-order differenCingular procedure.After prewhitening the cross-correlations between beverage-spacific alcohol sales and alcoholism mortality time series were inspected.This indicated that there was a statistically significant cross-correlation between total per capital 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.