Word: percents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wechsler says that 90 percent of American college students drink, but adds that that figure should not be surprising. Drinking increases as students approach their 20s, but decreases later, he says, making people between the ages of 18 and 24 the heaviest drinkers in the general population...
Wechsler says that in a study of high school drinking, 40 percent of high school males reported having had at least a six-pack of beer in the last two weeks...
Sixty-two percent of these heavy drinkers had been in trouble with authorities, and 53 percent had gotten into physical fights after drinking. About 29 percent said drinking had caused them to have an automobile accident and another 27 percent said they had been involved in other accidents as a result of alcohol...
...College Life Survey conducted last spring at Harvard found that 59 percent of students responding said they had one to four drinks when they drink. Twenty-one percent report having five to nine drinks at a time, while 3 percent have 10 or more. The survey found that 29 percent of those responding felt that Harvard students drink too much...
...report issued by UHS says that approximately 7 percent of Americans suffer from alcoholism--the most serious of these long-term problems...