| Tourists should take into account native customs and | | | | Bahraini (98 million); |
| traditions while traveling. The ignorance of national | | | | Telugu (75 million); |
| particularities and false "all-allowed" feeling, appearing | | | | Tai (70 million); |
| within a vacation far away from home are two | | | | Marathi(67 million); |
| reasons which occasionally bring to tragic events with | | | | Tamil (64 million); |
| the tourists. The arrest of a Swiss who has got 10 | | | | Vietnams (62 million); |
| years in prison for the King insult illustrates the first | | | | Egyptians (55 million); |
| reason. The second reason is reminded by the recent | | | | Turkish (53 million); |
| death of a seventeen year Danish tourist who has | | | | Gujarati (47 million); |
| died at a Bulgarian resort because of alcohol abuse. | | | | Malayans (35 million); |
| It appeared that about two thirds of the earth | | | | Oreos (32 million); |
| population lead sober lifestyles. About 600 peoples and | | | | Hausa (31 million); |
| nationalities on the earth do not smoke, do not drink | | | | Spamians (30 million); |
| alcohol and do not narcotize by force of their traditions, | | | | Kuwiti (30 million); |
| cultural and religious values. That's why a drinking or | | | | Persians (26 million); |
| smoking foreigner causes at least their disapproval. | | | | Soundians (25 million); |
| In many countries drinking or smoking abuse can cause | | | | Algerians (22 million). |
| various administrative or criminal penalizing. | | | | Religions and religious teachings/faiths convicting |
| The countries with alcohol being prohibited/limited: | | | | alcohol: |
| Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Benin, Brunei, | | | | Islam (more than 1 billion adherents); Sounnhism (850 |
| Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bhutan, East Timor, Gambia, | | | | million); Hinduism (793 million); Buddhism (500 million); |
| Ghana, Guinea, Guinea - Bissau, Djibouti, Egypt, Zambia, | | | | Vishnuhism (500 million); Hanafism (400 million); |
| Western Sahara, Zimbabwe, India, Indonesia, Jordan, | | | | Pentecost (373 million); Malachite (200 million); |
| Iraq, Iran, Iceland, Yemen, Cambodia, Cameroon, Qatar, | | | | Shiwaism(198 million); Schism (180 million) Imamhism (140 |
| Kenya, China, Comoro islands, Cot-Devoir, Kuwait, | | | | million); new century (100 million); a Calvinism (62 million); |
| Laos, Lesotho, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritius, Mauritania, | | | | Methodism (60 million); God assembly (22 million); |
| Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Maldives, Morocco, | | | | Amidaism (20 million); Adventists of the seventh day |
| Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Arabic | | | | (16 million) and others. |
| Emirates, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua-new | | | | Travelers should remember that even in non-prohibiting |
| Guinea, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, Seychelles, | | | | "cultural" or moderate drinking alcohol countries society |
| Senegal, Singapore, Syria, Somali, Sudan, Sierra Leone, | | | | imposes limits to many things - drinking alcohol in public |
| Thailand, Tanzania, Togo, Tunis, Turkmenistan, Turkey, | | | | places and in the street, driving being drunk, minimal |
| Uganda, Finland, Central African Republic, Chad, | | | | age to purchase and drink alcohol and many other |
| Sweden, Sri Lanka, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia. | | | | things. |
| Most numerous nationalities disapproving alcohol: | | | | The same regarding tobacco smoking, 5-10 countries |
| Chinese (1,125 billion people); | | | | annually accept a law limiting it. |
| Indians (245 million); | | | | But taking, storing or distributing drugs for the |
| Bengali (189 million); | | | | non-medical reason in the absolute majority of |
| Punjabi (99 million); | | | | countries is prohibited under the law. |