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THE FACTS...
Tobacco Facts
A smoker’s heart beats 10,000 times more each day than a non-smoker.
Smoking is responsible for 82% of all Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease deaths.
Smokers face an increase risk of oral cavity cancer, esophagus cancer, cancer of the pancreas and bladder.
Cigarettes are responsible for 87% of all lung cancer deaths.
There are 43 chemicals in tobacco that cause cancer.
Cigarette smoking among college students jumped 28% in four years.
Smoking is the leading preventable cause of disease and death, killing more than 400,000 Americans each year.
Overall tobacco use was higher among male students because of cigar smoking.
Cigars were predominantly a habit for older men until aggressive marketing campaigns by manufacturers increased cigar sales 50% from 1993 to 1998.
Alcohol Facts
Alcohol kills 5 times as many people as illegal drugs combined.
Typically 1 in 3 patients in a hospital are there because of alcohol related problems.
1 out of every 10 cars that passes you on the weekend has a drinking or drugged driver behind the wheel.
18 million American men, women, and children have drinking/drug abuse problems - 5 million of these are between the ages of 14 and 17.
Which side are you on?
76% of students are moderate or non-drinkers (moderate is defined as frequency of alcohol use is once/week to once/month.
78% of students have not performed poorly on a test or project because of alcohol or drug use
70% of students have not gotten into an argument or a fight as a result of alcohol or drug use
92% of students have not damaged property as a result of alcohol or drug use
69% of college students have not driven a car under the influence of alcohol or drugs
Nutrition / Eating Facts
The number of extra calories a person must eat to gain a pound or burn to lose a pound is 3,500 calories.
If shop mannequins were real women, they would be too thin to menstruate.
The average number of calories a person burns eating is .023 kcal per minute/per kilogram of body weight.
A 1995 Psychological study found that 3 minutes spent looking at models in a fashion magazine caused 70% of women to feel depressed, guilty, and shameful.
10% of eating disordered individuals coming to the attention of mental health professionals are male.
Based on a questionnaire administered to college students concerning weight, body shape, dieting, and exercise history, the authors found that 26% of the men and 48% of the women described themselves as overweight. Women dieted to lose weight whereas men usually exercised.
The magazines most read by females’ ages 18-24 had 10 times more diet content than those most popular among men in the same age group.
The annual number of deaths attributable to poor diet and inactivity is 300,000.
Over the past 20 years, the diet industry in the U.S. has tripled its gross annual income to a staggering $50 billion.
Sexual Assault
Rape defined by NIBRS→ the carnal knowledge of a person forcibly and/or against that person’s will, or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity; or an attempt to commit rape by force or threat of force.
It is estimated that one of seven college women has been the victim of rape or attempted rape.
One in four women had an experience that met the legal definition of rape or attempted rape.
84% of those raped knew their attacker.
57% of the rapes occurred on dates.
1 in 12 of the male students surveyed had committed acts that met the legal definitions of rape or attempted rape.
The average age when a rape incident occurred, for both male and female students 18.5
Only 27% of the women whose sexual assault met the legal definition of rape thought of themselves as rape victims.
About 75% of the men and at least 55% of the women involved in acquaintance rape had been drinking or taking drugs just before the attack.
42% of the rape victims told no one about their assaults. Only 5% reported their rapes to the police. Only 5% sought help at rape crisis centers.
Whether they acknowledge their experience as rape or not, 30% of the women identified in the study as rape victims contemplated suicide after the incident.
894% of the men who committed rape said that what they did was definitely not rape.
The highest rates of intimate violence affected women ages 16-24
Between 1992 and 1994, the number of violent incidents involving a female victim totaled 14 million crimes during the three-year period.
The FBI estimates the 72 out of every 100,000 women in the U.S. were raped last year.
1 out of every 12 women has been stalked in their life; an estimated 1,006,970 are stalked annually in the U.S.
75% of female victims knew the offender: 29% were current or former spouses or boyfriends; 40% were acquaintances; 9% were relatives.
Sexual Responsibility
In the United States, approximately 12 million cases of STD occur every year.
Gonorrhea is the most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States, even though experts believe that only 50% of all cases are reported and treated.
Human papilloma virus, or genital warts, is the fourth most prevalent STD in the US.
Syphilis attacks 90,000 Americans every year.
90% of Chlamydia cases occur in the college age group; Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted infection at TU and most often does not cause symptoms
Only 30% of university students who had sex in the three months preceding the survey of 2000 had used a condom at the last sexual intercourse.
Condoms can help reduce the risk of getting bacterial, viral, and other STD’s