Vital Statistics

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study examines health risk behaviors among college students, including binge drinking, tobacco use, and illicit drug use. It includes information on the effects of binge drinking on both bingeing and nonbingeing students.

For information on alcohol use by other groups of Americans, consult the following sites:

http://www.DrugAbuseStatistics.samhsa.gov Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) publishes the annual National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), which includes statistics on alcohol use, heavy drinking, and binge drinking among different groups of Americans.

http://monitoringthefuture.org Monitoring the Future focuses on drug use among high school students (8th, 10th, and 12th graders).

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/brfss CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System looks at health risk behaviors among adults, including the use of alcohol and tobacco.

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System looks at a variety of health risk behaviors among young people, including the use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.

An abstract of the analysis cited for this figure is available online http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n6/abs/joc00088.html Thun, M. J., L. F. Apicella, and S. J. Henley. 2000. Smoking vs. other risk factors as the cause of smoking-attributable deaths. Journal of the American Medical Association 284(6): 706-712.

Other information on the health risks of smoking is available from the following:

http://www.lungusa.org American Lung Association

http://www.cancer.org/gasp American Cancer Society: Tobacco

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco CDC Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS)

http://www.who.int/toh WHO Tobacco Free Initiative