Children will be exposed to more than a thousand television
commercials promoting drinking each year, and view thousands more television scenes
in which alcohol is consumed.
Children and teenagers are more likely to drink alcohol than
all other drugs combined.
Teenagers who begin drinking before the age of 15 are 400%
more likely to become alcoholics than those who wait until the age of 21 to
drink.
In America,
underage drinking costs taxpayers almost 60 billion dollars each year.
About a third of American high school students admit to
binge drinking within the last month.
Drinking alcohol kills almost 5 American college students
each day, and young drinkers are 650% more likely to die from alcohol than all
other drugs combined.
A half million children between the ages of 9-12 years are
dependent on alcohol.
Every day more than 11 000 underage drinkers try alcohol for
the first time.
