Drinking

Drinking The cost of underage drinking has cost the US government millions of dollars in the past couple of years. The cost covers anything from violent crimes to car accidents. About $250,000,000 was spent to help reinforce the underage drinking laws that already exist. Each year more and more youth are becoming involved with drinking. Reports show that in 1996, 9.5 million drinkers were age 12 to 20, with 4.4 of them being binge drinkers and 1.9 million were heavy drinkers. The younger teenagers start drinking the more likely they are to develop an addition. When these teenagers start to drive motor accidents are increasingly horrible, in fact motor vehicle accidents is the number one leading cause of death in teens today. Even the most improbable of statistics are often repeated by news media as fact and become part of public belief. It is now commonly believed that the average young person will have seen 100,000 beer commercials between the age of two and eighteen But just think --- sixteen years or about 5,844 days occur between a person's second and eighteenth birthday. To see 100,000 beer commercials in that period, drinkers, binge, students, likely, drinking, percent, over, important, cost, compared, accidents, years, year, very, underage, two, twice, times, teenagers, start, said, repeated, person, participation, one, often, motor, million, fact, commercials, between, beer, been, average, among, age, about, 100000, 44, youth, younger, young, women, white, violent, vehicle, today, think, teens, surveys