Alcohol is referred to as a "social lubricant"
7 of 10 Americans drink alcohol
1 of those 7 are alcoholics
for those of you incapable of simple math, 10% of Americans 21 or older (but lets be honest you and I both know, very few people wait till they are 21)
40% of adult Americans have direct family experience with alcohol abuse.
54% of murders and attempted murders
68% of manslaughters
52% of rape/sexual assaults
48% of robberies
are alcohol related
There are 3 alcohol related fatalities per day in Florida alone
1.4 million people were arrested for DUI/DWI in the US, but that didn't stop the 15,786 deaths in drunk driving cases.... Think it's going down?
drunk driving crashes in the US
1997 457
1998 510
1999 518
2000 515
2001 555
It has been proven that drinking alcohol greatly increases your chances of getting cancer of the mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus
~ 1/1000 babies are born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome today
90% of students drink alcohol
55% are binge drinkers
35% are frequent binge drinkers
>20% are alcoholics of have some other diagnosable drinking disorder
for those of you who liked to complain about government finances....
Leon County had to spend ~$61 million in 2000 fighting underage drinking
there are 3077 Counties in the US, but for the benefit of the doubt lets take that figure and drop it down to $10 million county^-1
$10 million * 3077 counties = ~$30.7 billion, with very low estimates for amount spent per county. And that's fighting underage drinkers only
Want to know what the first stages of alcoholism are? Dependence on the mood altering ability of alcohol. Ie drinking to perk up, calm down, celebrate, mourn or to be sociable.
1400 college students age 18-24 die every year due to alcohol abuse. The average college student spends $900 dollars a semester on alcohol.
What are the motives for a person to lose control of him/herself, risk harming oneself, or others, and expose oneself to criminal or civil penalties, while pouring all that money into the pockets of corporate coffers?
For those of you who care about money and our environment
20% of corn produced goes to alcohol production. However the government subsidizes those farms $15 billion in total because more fossil energy is used to produce alcohol from corn, than alcohols calorific value.
Not only does it cost lives, cost money, it is costing us our environment
-SOURCES
Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association
Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)
9th Report on Carcinogens 2000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human services
"Overview of Alcohol-Related Problems." Columbia U College of P and S. pp. 1-13. 14 Feb. 2001
New York Times, Nov. 9, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/09/ed...tml?oref=login
Crit. Rev. Plant Sci. 23: 519-567 (2004)
7 of 10 Americans drink alcohol
1 of those 7 are alcoholics
for those of you incapable of simple math, 10% of Americans 21 or older (but lets be honest you and I both know, very few people wait till they are 21)
40% of adult Americans have direct family experience with alcohol abuse.
54% of murders and attempted murders
68% of manslaughters
52% of rape/sexual assaults
48% of robberies
are alcohol related
There are 3 alcohol related fatalities per day in Florida alone
1.4 million people were arrested for DUI/DWI in the US, but that didn't stop the 15,786 deaths in drunk driving cases.... Think it's going down?
drunk driving crashes in the US
1997 457
1998 510
1999 518
2000 515
2001 555
It has been proven that drinking alcohol greatly increases your chances of getting cancer of the mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus
~ 1/1000 babies are born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome today
90% of students drink alcohol
55% are binge drinkers
35% are frequent binge drinkers
>20% are alcoholics of have some other diagnosable drinking disorder
for those of you who liked to complain about government finances....
Leon County had to spend ~$61 million in 2000 fighting underage drinking
there are 3077 Counties in the US, but for the benefit of the doubt lets take that figure and drop it down to $10 million county^-1
$10 million * 3077 counties = ~$30.7 billion, with very low estimates for amount spent per county. And that's fighting underage drinkers only
Want to know what the first stages of alcoholism are? Dependence on the mood altering ability of alcohol. Ie drinking to perk up, calm down, celebrate, mourn or to be sociable.
1400 college students age 18-24 die every year due to alcohol abuse. The average college student spends $900 dollars a semester on alcohol.
What are the motives for a person to lose control of him/herself, risk harming oneself, or others, and expose oneself to criminal or civil penalties, while pouring all that money into the pockets of corporate coffers?
For those of you who care about money and our environment
20% of corn produced goes to alcohol production. However the government subsidizes those farms $15 billion in total because more fossil energy is used to produce alcohol from corn, than alcohols calorific value.
Not only does it cost lives, cost money, it is costing us our environment
-SOURCES
Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association
Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)
9th Report on Carcinogens 2000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human services
"Overview of Alcohol-Related Problems." Columbia U College of P and S. pp. 1-13. 14 Feb. 2001
New York Times, Nov. 9, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/09/ed...tml?oref=login
Crit. Rev. Plant Sci. 23: 519-567 (2004)
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