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Alcohol Statistics:
- Each year, a typical young person in the United States is
inundated with more than 1,000 commercials for beer
and wine coolers in addition to several thousand fictional
drinking incidents on television.
- Alcohol is involved in 50% of all driving fatalities.
- In the United States, every 30 minutes, someone is killed
in an alcohol related traffic accident.
- Over 15 million Americans are dependent on alcohol.
500,000 are between the age of 9 and 12.
- Each year the liquor industry spends almost $2 billion
dollars on advertising and encouraging the consumption
of alcoholic beverages.
- Americans spend over $90 billion dollars on alcohol
each year.
- On average, Americans may consume over 25 gallons of
beer, 2 gallons of wine, and 1.5 gallons of distilled spirits
each year.
- Pregnant women who drink are feeding alcohol to their
babies. Unfortunately the underdeveloped liver of the
baby can only burn alcohol at half the rate of its mother,
so the alcohol stays in the baby's system twice as long.
- Each year, students spend $5.5 billion on alcohol. That
is more than they spend on soft drinks, tea, milk, juice,
coffee, or books combined.
- 56% of students in grade 5 to 12 say that alcohol
advertising encourages them to drink.
- 6.6% of employees in full time jobs report heavy
drinking, defined as drinking five or more drinks per
occasion on five or more days in the past 30 days.
- The highest percentage of heavy drinkers (12.2%) is
found among unemployed adults between the age of 26
to 34.
- Up to 40% of all industrial fatalities and 47% of industrial
injuries can be linked to alcohol consumption and
alcoholism.
- In 2000, almost 7 million persons age 12 to 20 were
binge drinkers. That means about one in five persons
under the legal drinking age were binge drinkers.
- The 2001 survey shows 25 million (one in ten)
Americans surveyed reported driving under the influence
of alcohol. This report is nearly three million more than
the previous year. Among young adults age 18 to 25
years, almost 23% drove under the influence of alcohol.
- Drunk driving is proving to be even deadlier than what
we previously knew. The latest death statistics released
by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA), using a new method of calculation, shows that
17,488 people where killed in alcohol related traffic
accidents last year. This report represents nearly 800
more people were killed than the previous year.
- 43% of Americans have been exposed to alcoholism in
their families.
- Nearly 1 out of 4 Americans admitted to hospitals have
alcohol problems or are undiagnosed alcoholics being
diagnosed for alcohol related consequences.
- Alcohol and alcohol related problems are costing the
American economy at least $100 million in health care
and loss of productivity every year.
- Four in ten criminal offenders report alcohol as a factor
in violence.
- Among spouse violence victims, three out of four
incidents were reported to have involved alcohol use by
the offender.
- In 1996, local law enforcement agencies made an
estimated 1,467,300 arrests nationwide for driving under
the influence of alcohol.
- [Source: Narconon website]
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