Nobody drinks more coffee than the Finns, so maybe my addiction is genetic. The Helsinki City Library recently posted a great article on the history of coffee drinking in Finland, which includes such information as "coffee consumption per capita in Finland [in 2004] was 11.99 kg, which is approximately 3.8 cups of coffee a day. In the same year, coffee consumption was 4.26 kg per person in the USA, 2.43 kg in the UK, 8.06 kg in Sweden and 3.36 kg in Japan."
That's a lot of joe. I wonder if this tradition from the nineteenth century survives: "In the archipelago and in North-Finland it was earlier usual to drink coffee with salt, or make coffee in sea water. Like that people drank less coffee than they otherwise would have done."
I hope not.