HEC/News: Analysis rates state no. 1 for alcohol's impact on lives (Herald Times)

HEC/News
Monday, July 7, 2008

Analysis rates state no. 1 for alcohol's impact on lives
Herald Times Reporter (WI) July 6, 2008
By Susan Squires

"The [Appleton Post-Crescent] newspaper ranked all 50 states in 10 key
areas to provide the best gauge of the culture of drinking in a place.
Those key areas measure the price, availability and consumption of
alcohol, along with alcohol's related criminal justice, social and
health impacts..."
 
"Wisconsin offers some of the country's cheapest beer and booze,
available at some 17,500 bars, taverns and stores statewide. The state
also has the nation's highest percentage of binge drinkers and
alcoholics..."
 
"It's about a culture that would rather believe a serial killer stalked
the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus than accept the deaths of
eight young men in the Mississippi River as the result of binge
drinking. For the past many years, Wisconsin, on average, ranks No. 1 in
the nation for binge drinking ? five or more drinks in a sitting for men
and four or more for women ? and heavy drinking...."

Full article available at
http://www.htrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080706/MAN0101/80706
0365/1984/MANlife

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