1.   Over a quarter of our energy consumption is in the home.

2.   Per capita food consumption was sustained but not increased.

3.   The idea that maximizing personal consumption is central to individual welfare is less than two hundred years old.

4.   To suggest that all unproductive consumption is solely capitalist personal consumption is to go beyond the bounds of credibility.

5.   Tobacco consumption was the most important factor to explain the variance.

6.   The main tool of policy was to be public spending, but work in Whitehall on schemes for the regulation of private investment and consumption was to continue.

7.   According to a study by a Danish doctor, moderate consumption of alcohol is good for the heart.

8.   Then there is social consumption, expenditure on projects and services that lower the reproduction costs of labour.

9.   An increasing number of medical experts now agree that moderate consumption of alcohol is beneficial to health.