Most Poles believe access to alcohol is too easy
Close to 69 percent of Poles said in a recent survey that alcohol was too accessible, with only a minority of respondents holding a contrary view.
In an IBRiS poll conducted for the Rzeczpospolita newspaper and published on Monday, 68.6 percent of participants said alcohol was too easy to obtain. The group included 41.5 percent who said "definitely yes" and 27.1 percent who opted for the "rather yes" option.
Among the 21.4 percent of respondents who said that alcohol was not too accessible, 2.9 percent said "it definitely is not."
A total of 7.1 percent of those polled were undecided.
Older individuals, specifically those aged 50-59, most often pointed to easy access to alcohol, with 85 percent of them saying so, while the youngest group, aged 18-29, was the least inclined to agree, as only 45 percent of them said so.
Rzeczpospolita also observed that at the end of 2023, there was one shop selling alcoholic beverages per every 303 inhabitants and an average wage could purchase 2,103 bottles of beer, 313 bottles of wine or 238 bottles of vodka - the highest figures recorded to date.
IBRiS ran the survey on a sample of 1,073 adult Poles on September 26 and 27, 2025. (PAP)
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