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facts[0] = "Tobacco causes 400,000 deaths each year, killing more people than AIDS, alcohol and other drug abuse, car crashes, suicides, and fires combined."
facts[1] = "Nearly half of all Americans say they know someone with a drug problem."
facts[2] = "Each year there are more deaths and disabilities from substance abuse than from any other preventable cause."
facts[3] = "Of the 2 million U.S. deaths annually, one in four is attributable to alcohol, illicit drug, or tobacco use."
facts[4] = "Alcohol and other drug addiction costs our society $276 billion each year as a result of lost productivity, healthcare costs, crime and traffic fatalities. <strong><em>Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy</em></strong>"
facts[5] = "Addiction costs $1,000 per year for every man, woman and child. <strong><em>Source: Institute for Health Policy</em></strong>"
facts[6] = "Addictions lead to more disabilities and deaths each year than AIDS, cancer or heart disease."
facts[7] = "Addiction is the number one health problem in the United States, afflicting and affecting more than 22 million Americans."
facts[8] = "More than nine million children, one out of four, are growing up in a household where someone is dependent on alcohol or other drugs. "
facts[9] = "50% of all adults have a family history of alcoholism or problem drinking."
facts[10] = "Alcohol dependence causes more than 100,000 deaths in America each year. <strong><em>Source: NIAAA</em></strong>"
facts[11] = "50% of all traffic fatalities are alcohol-related. <strong><em>Source: NHTSA</em></strong>"
facts[12] = "Most youths have been exposed to some kind of substance abuse prevention message &mdash; whether having seen or heard an alcohol or drug prevention message or talked with a parent about the dangers of tobacco, alcohol, or drug use."
facts[13] = "About 84% of youths aged 12 to 17 (20.8 million) in 2003 reported having seen or heard an alcohol or drug prevention message from sources such as posters, pamphlets, radio, or TV in the past 12 months."
facts[14] = "About 59% of the youths aged 12 to 17 (14.6 million) reported having talked with at least one of their parents during the past year about the dangers of tobacco, alcohol or drug use."
facts[15] = "Youth who had talked with a parent about the dangers of tobacco, alcohol, or drug use in the past year were less likely to report past month alcohol use, binge alcohol use, or illicit drug use than youths who had not talked with a parent."
facts[16] = "An annual average of 18 million women aged 18 or older lived with a biological, foster, step, or adoptive child aged 12 to 17. About 3.2% of the mothers had both serious mental illness and also reported illicit drug use, binge alcohol use, or heavy alcohol use during the past month."
facts[17] = "Youths living with a mother who had serious mental illness (SMI) were more likely to have used alcohol or an illicit drug during the past month (26.7%) than youths living with a mother who did not have SMI (18.8%). <strong><em>Source</em></strong><strong><em>: <a href=\"http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k5/motherSMI/motherSMI.cfm\"> The NSDUH Report:&nbsp; Mother's Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use among Youths</a></em></strong>"
facts[18] = "About 680,000 youths (2.7%) aged 12 to 17 in the U.S. have ever been in foster care. Youths who have <em>ever</em> been in foster care had higher rates of any illicit drug use than youths who have <em>never</em> been in foster care (33.6% vs. 21.7%)."
facts[19] = "Youths aged 12 to 17 who were in need of substance abuse treatment in the past year were more likely to have received treatment if they had ever been in foster care. <strong><em> Source: <a href=\"http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k5/FosterCare/FosterCare.cfm\"> The NSDUH Report:&nbsp; Substance Use and Need for Treatment Among Youths Who Have Been in Foster Care</a></em></strong>"
facts[20] = "The lower the family income, the more likely that youths have used cigarettes or an illegal drug in their lifetime."
facts[21] = "Youths in families with annual incomes of less than $20,000 were equally likely to have ever used alcohol or inhalants as those in families with incomes of $75,000 or more."
facts[22] = "Youths age 12 to 17 in families with annual incomes of less than $20,000 were more likely to have smoked cigarettes in their lifetime than those in families with incomes of $75,000 or more (35.4% vs. 25.2%)."
facts[23] = "An estimated 15% of youths in families with annual incomes of less than $20,000 had ever used prescription-type drugs nonmedically compared with 11% of those in families with incomes of $75,000 or more. <strong><em> Source: <a href=\"http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k4/youthIncome/youthIncome.cfm\"> The NSDUH Report:&nbsp; Youth Substance Use and Family Income</a></em></strong>"
facts[24] = "Students aged 12 to 17 with positive school experiences were less likely to have used alcohol or illicit drugs in the past year than students without these positive school experiences.&nbsp; The youth with positive school experiences were those who enjoyed going to school, who felt that their assigned schoolwork was meaningful, or who felt that the things they learned in school were going to be important later in life.&nbsp; "
facts[25] = "The rates of past year alcohol and illicit drug use were lower for youths who had seen or heard drug or alcohol prevention messages at school in the past year than youths who had NOT seen or heard drug or alcohol prevention messages at school.&nbsp; <strong><em> Source: <a href=\"http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k3/school/school.cfm\"> The NHSDA Report:&nbsp; School Experiences and Substance Use Among Youths</a>.</em></strong>"
facts[26] = "In 2004, persons aged 12 or older who lived in metropolitan areas were more likely to abuse or be dependent on alcohol or an illicit drug during the past year than those living in non-metropolitan areas. "
facts[27] = "Males living in metropolitan areas were more likely to abuse or be dependent on alcohol or an illicit drug than males living in non-metropolitan areas. "
facts[28] = "Rates of past year substance abuse or dependence changed little between 2002, 2003, and 2004 in either metropolitan or non-metropolitan areas. <strong><em>Source: SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health</em></strong>"
facts[29] = "An estimated 30.7 million persons aged 21 or older (16.6% of adult drivers) reported driving under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs during the past year. "
facts[30] = "1.2 million persons aged 21 or older (0.6% of adult drivers) were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or illicit drugs during the past year.&nbsp; "
facts[31] = "Among drivers aged 21 and older, 5.9% of those reporting that they had driven under the influence of both alcohol and illicit drugs during the past year had been arrested for DUI in the past year."
facts[32] = "4.8% of those driving under the influence of only illicit drugs, and 2.9% of those who had driven under the influence of only alcohol during the past year had been arrested for DUI in the past year. <strong><em>Source: <a href=\"http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k5/DUIarrests/DUIarrests.cfm\"> The NSDUH Report:</a><a href=\"http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k5/DUIarrests/DUIarrests.cfm\"> &nbsp;&nbsp;Arrests for Driving Under the Influence among Adult Drivers</a></em></strong>"
facts[33] = "An annual average of 4.2 million persons aged 16 to 20 reported driving under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs during the past year.&nbsp; About 169,000 of these persons (4%) reported that they had been arrested and booked for DUI/ DWI involving alcohol or drugs in the past year. <strong><em> Source: <a href=\"http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k4/youthDUI/youthDUI.cfm\"> The NSDUH Report:&nbsp;&nbsp;Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Among Young Persons</a></em></strong>"
facts[34] = "More young people were killed on the highways when the drinking age was 18.&nbsp; Back in 1982 when the many of the states had minimum drinking ages of 18, 55% of all fatal crashes involving youth drivers involved alcohol. Since then, the alcohol-related traffic fatality rate has been cut in half!&nbsp;&nbsp;Research estimates that from 1975-2002 more than 21,000 lives have been saved.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>Source: MADD</em></strong>"
facts[35] = "A study on alcohol advertising in magazines from 1997 to 2001 found that the number of beer and distilled spirits ads tended to increase with a magazine's youth readership. For every 1 million underage readers ages 12-19 in a magazine, researchers generally found 1.6 times more beer advertisements and 1.3 times more distilled spirits advertisements. <strong><em>Source: &ldquo;Alcohol Advertising in Magazines and Youth Readership,&quot; The Journal of the American Medical Association 289</em></strong>"
facts[36] = "A study of 12-year-olds found that children who were more aware of beer advertising held more favorable views on drinking and expressed an intention to drink more often as adults than did children who were less knowledgeable about the ads. <strong><em>Source: Effects of the Mass Media on the Use and Abuse of Alcohol, NIAAA</em></strong>"
facts[37] = "A recent economic analysis assessed the effects of alcohol advertising on youth drinking behaviors by comparing federally reported levels of youth drinking with detailed reports on alcohol advertising in local markets during the same years. The analysis concluded that a complete ban on alcohol advertising could reduce monthly levels of youth drinking by 24% and youth binge drinking by about 42%. <strong><em>Source:<a href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w9676\"> Alcohol Advertising and Alcohol Consumption by Adolescents, Working Paper 9676</a> National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2003</em></strong>"
facts[38] = "The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth found that, from 2001 though 2003, youth in the United States were 96 times more likely per capita to see an ad promoting alcohol than an industry ad discouraging underage drinking. In fact, compared to underage youth, adults age 21 and over were nearly twice as likely per capita to see advertising discouraging underage drinking. <strong><em>Source: CAMY</em></strong>"
facts[39] = "Eighty percent of general public respondents in a poll by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms believed &quot;that alcohol advertising influences youth to drink alcoholic beverages.&quot; <strong><em>Source:</em></strong><strong><em> Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Executive Summary of Findings of Research Study of the Public Opinion Concerning Warning Labels on Containers of Alcoholic Beverages</em></strong>"
facts[40] = "A poll done for an alcohol-industry-funded organization called the Century Council, found that 73% of the public believes that &quot;alcohol advertising is a major contributor to underage drinking.&rdquo;<strong><em> Source:</em></strong><strong><em>Century Council, Alcohol Issues Insights </em></strong>"
facts[41] = "<strong><em>Source: </em></strong><em>Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility, a 2004 report from The National Academies:</em><strong></strong>"
facts[42] = "Adolescents in the United States grow up in a world filled with messages about alcohol. Most of the messages present drinking in a positive light, and most of them show alcohol as a normal part of adult and teen social life. Warnings against underage drinking from parents or in health class may well be drowned out by the barrage of daily messages about alcohol in daily life. "
facts[43] = "17 percent of the 1,000 of the most popular songs in 1996-1997 across five genres of music popular with youth contained alcohol references, including almost one-half of the rap music recordings. "
facts[44] = "[A] recent report concluded that the cost of alcohol use by youth was $53 billion in 1996, including $19 billion from traffic crashes and $29 billion from violent crime."
facts[45] = "Acute consequences of underage drinking include unintentional death and injury associated with driving or engaging in other risky tasks after drinking, homicide and violence, suicide attempts, sexual assault, risky sexual behavior, and vandalism and property damage. In addition, these consequences appear to be more severe for those who start drinking at a young age."
facts[46] = "Although alcohol-related youth motor vehicle fatalities have decreased substantially over the past decade or so, youth are still overrepresented in alcohol-related fatal crashes compared with the older population."
facts[47] = "While only 7 percent of licensed drivers in 2000 were aged 15 to 20, they represented approximately 13 percent of drivers involved in fatal crashes who had been drinking."
facts[48] = "According to Grunbaum et al. (2002), 38.3 percent of Latinos, 30.3 percent of whites, and 27.6 percent of African Americans [in the 9th to 12th grades] rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol. And 14.7 percent of whites, 13.1 percent of Latinos, and 7.7 percent of African Americans &hellip; admitted to driving a car after drinking alcohol."
facts[49] = "Young people who have been drinking are less likely to wear a safety belt. They are more likely to get in a car with an intoxicated driver: 41 percent of frequent heavy drinkers reported riding with an intoxicated driver, compared with only 14 percent of those who never drank."
facts[50] = "Alcohol has been reported to be involved in 36 percent of homicides, 12 percent of male suicides, and 8 percent of female suicides involving people under 21&mdash;a total of about 1,500 homicides and 300 suicides in 2000. Homicide is the second leading cause of death for 15- to 24-year-olds."
facts[51] = "Individuals under the age of 21 commit 45 percent of rapes, 44 percent of robberies, and 37 percent of other assaults, and it is estimated that 50 percent of violent crime is alcohol-related."
facts[52] = "On college campuses 95 percent of all violent crime and 90 percent of college rapes involve the use of alcohol by the assailant, victim, or both."
facts[53] = "More than 70,000 students aged 18-24 are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape."
facts[54] = "Young people seem to be aware that using alcohol influences their decisions about sexual behavior: 29 percent of 15- to17-year-olds and 37 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds said that alcohol or drugs influenced their decision to do something sexual.<strong></strong>"
facts[55] = "Alcohol use during adolescence may have a direct effect on brain functioning: negative effects included decreased ability in planning and executive functioning, memory, spatial operations, and attention."
facts[56] = "In 1998, an estimated 400,000 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 had unprotected sex after drinking, and an estimated 100,000 had sex when they were so intoxicated they were unable to consent."
facts[57] = "It is estimated that teenage girls who binge drink are up to 63% more likely to become teen mothers.<strong></strong>"
facts[58] = "It was estimated in 1998 that of the nearly 15 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases each year, 25% (3.8 million cases) occur among youth ages 15-19. Teens who use alcohol are seven times more likely to be sexually active, putting them at a greater risk for STDs."
facts[59] = "Every day in the United States, 7,000 kids under age 16 have their first full drink of alcohol."
facts[60] = "More youth in the United States drink alcohol than smoke tobacco or marijuana, making it the drug most used by American young people."
facts[61] = "The average age at which young people, ages 12 to 17, begin to drink is 13 years old<strong>.<em>&nbsp;</em></strong>"
facts[62] = "In a national study, 18.6% of eighth-graders reported having at least one drink in the past 30 days, and 14.5% had been drunk at least once in the past year."
facts[63] = "Between 1993 and 2001, 18- to 20-year-old drinkers showed the largest increase (56%) in binge-drinking episodes (five or more drinks consumed on at least one occasion in the past 30 days) among American adults. This group of underage drinkers also had the second-highest rate of binge drinking, outstripped only by young adults ages 21-25."
facts[64] = "Twelve- to fourteen-year-old binge drinkers consume 92% of the alcohol drunk by their age group."
facts[65] = "Approximately 10.8 million 12- to 20-year-olds have had a drink in the past month. Approximately 7.4 million of these young people were binge drinkers, and 2.4 million were heavy drinkers."
facts[66] = "Underage drinking is estimated to account for between 12% and 20% of the U.S. alcohol market. Even the lower estimate, 12%, represents 3.6 billion drinks each year."
facts[67] = "More kids try alcohol than try cigarettes."
facts[68] = "Parents perceive alcohol ads as having an impact on teen drinking habits, and they see alcohol companies as falling far short in dealing responsibly with the impact of their advertising on young people."
facts[69] = "Eighty-two percent (82%) of parents say that teens' alcohol-related risky behavior is a problem in society today, including 56% who say that it is a big problem."
facts[70] = "A wide gap exists between parents' perceptions of their teens' drinking habits and those habits reported by teens themselves."
facts[71] = "Parents overwhelmingly (81%) believe that, due to the potentially harmful effects of its products, the alcohol industry has a special responsibility to avoid exposing young people to messages encouraging alcohol consumption."
facts[72] = "According to 2003 data, more ninth-grade girls consume alcohol now than do ninth-grade boys. More ninth-grade girls than ninth-grade boys also report binge drinking."
facts[73] = "Girls, ages 12 to 20, saw 68% more beer advertising than women of legal age on a per capita basis in magazines in 2002, while boys, ages 12 to 20, saw 29% more beer advertising than men on a per capita basis. "
facts[74] = "Girls saw 30% more distilled spirits advertising per capita than women in magazines in 2002, while boys saw almost as much as men. "
facts[75] = "Girls saw 95% more magazine advertising for low-alcohol refreshers (also called &ldquo;alcopops&rdquo; or &ldquo;malternatives&rdquo;) than women per capita in 2002, while boys saw 37% more than men. Girls&rsquo; exposure to low-alcohol refresher magazine advertising increased by 216% from 2001 to 2002, while boys&rsquo; exposure increased 46%."
facts[76] = "Women generally drink less and less often than men. However, women drinkers are at higher risk for certain medical problems, including liver, brain, and heart damage, than are men who drink comparable amounts. <strong><em>Source: NIAAA</em></strong>"
facts[77] = "Women metabolize alcohol differently than men. When women and men of the same body weight drink the same amount of alcohol, women reach higher peak blood alcohol levels."
facts[78] = "The USDA Dietary Guidelines reflect that women drinkers are at higher risk for alcohol-related health problems. The USDA prescribes that any alcohol use be done in moderation and defines moderation as no more than one drink a day for women and no more than two drinks a day for men. <strong><em>Source: USDA</em></strong>"
facts[79] = "Several meta-analyses have found that any consumption of alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer, and that the degree of risk rises as the level of consumption increases. <strong><em>Source: Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity (</em></strong><strong><em>Oxford</em></strong><strong><em>: </em></strong><strong><em>Oxford</em></strong><strong></strong><strong><em>University</em></strong><strong><em> Press, 2003)</em></strong>"
facts[80] = "In a survey done of prisoners in state jails in 1997, 40% of convicted rape and sexual assault offenders said that they were drinking at the time of their crime. <strong><em>Source: Alcohol Policy XII Conference, Alcohol &amp; Crime: Research and Practice for Prevention</em></strong>"
facts[81] = "Of domestic violence incidents reported by the victims, 67% involve an abusive partner who has been drinking. <strong><em>Source: &quot;Alcohol, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System.&quot;</em></strong>"
facts[82] = "A study on substance abuse and domestic violence between 1993 and 1998 found that 57% of domestic violence incidents during those six years involved only alcohol, while 10% of incidents involved both alcohol and drug use. In contrast, only 11% of domestic violence incidents during those years involved only drug use, and only 21% involved no substance abuse at all. <strong><em>Source: &quot;Alcohol, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System.</em></strong>"
facts[83] = "Three teens are killed each day when they drink alcohol and drive. At least six more die every day from other alcohol-related causes. <strong><em>Source: NHTSA &amp; CDCP</em></strong>"
facts[84] = "Americans who began drinking before the age of 15 are four times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who wait until the age of 21. <strong><em>Source: Jurnal of Substance Abuse</em></strong>"
facts[85] = "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 4,554 underage deaths each year are due to excessive alcohol use."
facts[86] = "Alcohol use plays a substantial role in all three leading causes of death among youth - unintentional injuries (including motor vehicle fatalities and drownings), suicides and homicides. <strong><em>Source: National Research Council and </em></strong><strong><em>Institute</em></strong><strong><em> of </em></strong><strong><em>Medicine</em></strong><strong><em>, Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility</em></strong>"
facts[87] = "Those who begin drinking before the age of 14 are five times more likely than those who begin drinking after the age of 21 to be injured while under the influence of alcohol at some point during their lives. <strong><em>Source: NHTSA </em></strong>"
facts[88] = "Among young people, binge drinkers and heavy drinkers are more than twice as likely as non-drinkers to report having attempted to injure themselves or having contemplated or attempted to commit suicide. <strong><em>Source: SAMHSA </em></strong>"
facts[89] = "Research has also shown another specific link between heavy alcohol use and youth suicides. States that passed &quot;zero tolerance&quot; laws to reduce youth drinking-driving also experienced statistically significant reductions in suicide deaths among 15- to 20-year-olds, compared to states that did not pass such laws. <strong><em>Source: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 23, no. 4 (2004) </em></strong>"
facts[90] = "There is growing evidence to suggest that alcohol use prior to age 21 impairs crucial aspects of youthful brain development. In one recent study, heavy-drinking adolescents who had been sober for three weeks still scored 10 percent lower than non-drinking peers on tests requiring verbal and nonverbal recall and skills needed for map reading, geometry, and science. <strong><em>Source: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 24, no. 2 (Feb 2000)</em></strong>"

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