- Alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse cost the United States an estimated $220 billion in 2005. This dollar amount was more than the cost associated with cancer ($196 billion) and obesity ($133 billion).
- Every day in the U.S. more than 13,000 children and teens take their first drink.
- The 25.9% of underage drinkers who are alcohol abusers and alcohol dependent drink 47.3% of the alcohol that is consumed by all underage drinkers.
- Every year in the U.S. more than 150,000 college students develop health problem that are alcohol-related.
- The 9.6% of adult alcoholics drink 25% of the alcohol that is consumed by all adult drinkers.
- American youth who drinking before the of age 15 are four times more likely to become alcoholics than young people who do not drink before the age of 21.
- Every year, 1,400 American college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die from alcohol-related inadvertent injuries, including motor vehicle accidents.
- In the United States during 2004, 16,694 deaths occurred as a result of alcohol-related motor-vehicle crashes. This amount was approximately 39% of all traffic fatalities. This amounts to one alcohol-related death every 31 minutes.
Source : http://www.alcohol-abuse-info.com/
According to a U.S. 1995 national survey of fourth through sixth graders who read the Weekly Reader, 30 percent of the students reported that they received “a lot” of pressure from their classmates to drink beer. In one U.S. survey, 50% of high school seniors reported that they drank alcohol in the past 30 days, with 32% of them reporting that they were drunk at least once. Research has demonstrated that U.S. teens who drink alcohol are 50 times more likely to use cocaine than teenagers who never consume alcohol. In 2002, U.S. alcoholism statistics reported that 2.6 million binge drinkers were between the ages of 12 and 17. A study of U.S. fifth and sixth-grade students found that those who displayed an awareness of beer ads also held more favorable beliefs about drinking and intended to drink more frequently when they grew up.
Bradley
/ February 9, 2010Faced with all these facts how could anyone vote yes?
Melissa
/ February 10, 2010I will never undertand how anyone can believe that alcohol is good in any way, shape or form. The bad FAR out weighs any financial gain.
Billy Robinson
/ February 11, 2010Alcohol always leaves you worse than it found you. The facts are very straightforward, if you drink your motor skills, speech, logic, and health in general are affected in a very negative fashion. To be quite honest, it doesn’t just affect the person injesting the alcohol, it also impacts everyone you encounter! Vote NO, not just for your health, but for all those who live, visit, or happen to pass through Burnsville!
Dustin McCurry
/ February 11, 2010Okay first, alcohol is bad for your health, second, it makes you do things you are not proud of, and third, it could be the reason you don’t make it to the same place i’m going to when you die! So PLEASE make Burnsville proud and vote NO to Alcohol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Steve Robinson
/ February 11, 2010There has never been an alcoholic who never drank, so I have always made it a point to never drink and thus never facing the possibilty of becoming an alcoholic. I have also heard it said that the most dangerous thing for some one to face is when temptaion meets oportunity. While we can not control the temptations of others, we can reduce the oportunity by voting NO to alcohol in Burnsville.
Jackie Thomas
/ February 11, 2010The greatest thing we can do is pray that alcohol will stay out of Burnsville. There is nothing good about alcohol and there never will be. Thanks for the website. It has a lot of information that we need to know about.
Anonymous
/ February 11, 2010Thank God you guys are doing this! I wish we would have done something for Avery County before alcohol was voted in. Please pray for us and our petition to get alcohol out of Avery. I’ll be praying for you guys.
Helen Robinson
/ February 13, 2010A wise person once said, “You can’t un-ring a bell”. If alcohol is voted in, it’s effects will be passed on to our children and grandchildren. In bigger cities a drunk has the option to call a taxi or take the bus home, but in Burnsville the only choice will be to call a friend or relative,or to drive drunk. Also consider who will be selling the alcohol. Do we really want our children working in restaurants and grocery stores to be selling alcohol? I want to thank everyone who is working so hard to keep Burnsville dry.
Denny Wilson
/ February 18, 2010Once alcohol is legal, its like the H1N1 we will be sick to death with it, but unlike the flu there is no miracle shot, or cure that we can run out and get that will take it away. As we all know once its voted in no matter how bad it gets, it will never go away. We have all been raised and taught, that if the neighbor kids climb to the top of the tree and jump out we don’t have to do the same. Pray without ceasing, and vote NO to alcohol on April 6th. Thanks for all the hard work put into this fight.
george woody
/ February 27, 2010the end of alchahol is trouble,children with seperated parents not knoeing which way to turn.parents with broken hearts for their children and grandchildren. trouble never ends as long as alchahol is in volved.we do not need it in yancey county.wo unto the man that puts the bottle to his neighbors mouth.GOD will judge every man by his deeds. VOTE NO”
Cynthia Ramsey
/ February 28, 2010Im glad to see people fighting against alcohol. It has destroyed my family.
Ray Anglin
/ March 1, 2010Why must we conform to the rest of the world. Let us continue to be unique and set apart. Voting no is saying yes to the values we in this community hold dear.
joe
/ March 5, 2010awesome <3
Ken
/ March 9, 2010I am glad you have this website and that you are fighting against the sale of alcohol.I wish I could vote,but I live outside of town,but I am praying that it will NOT be passed,we dont need it here,there is NO excuse anyone can give me why we need it.There has always been enough people here to stand against it when it came to voting,I still hope there are enough to stop it now.Just because there are bootleggers that sell it and people can go to another county to get it dont mean we shouild just go ahead and leagalize it,and why I am on that,the bootleggers should be stopped also,if the law were doing their job like they are suppose to,they would’nt be any of them selling it.Whether we can vote are not,lets all stand together with prayer to God,that it will NOT pass.And leagalizing alcohol here wont solve our economic situation.
Amanda Jones
/ March 22, 2010Please Burnsville let’s keep it dry!! I’m proud to raise my children in a place where we can actually go out to eat and it doesn’t look like a bar; or go to the grocery store and not have to walk through aisles of alcohol and have to explain to my children what those “bad drinks” are! I’m so thankful to have been raised in such a God fearing community with lots of KJV Bible believing churches here! My family & I cannot vote in this upcoming election, but we are praying for NO to alcohol!
Charles Riddle
/ March 31, 2010Alcohol destroyed my father-in-law–resulting in his early death at 49 years old.
If something is as tempting as beer being readily available–chances are that those being tempted will spend money that should have been used for food and supplies for their family.
Once getting hooked on readily available booze–it is like a cancer that grows and it does destroy. Years ago I was called by doctor who was treating a well educated radio engineer we will call “Wes” at 2 am in the morning to come in an identify his body and call his family. Wes lost millions while drunk in selling off his holdings for alcohol. Wes owned a communication company worth millions that he sold for 3 thousand dollars while drunk. He once set a radio station on fire while drunk and on the air. Another time “Red Shipley” was giving the news and Wes walked up drunk and set his news materiel on fire.
What else is there to say. You are fighting big business who doesn’t care or see the pain young children and families are faced with.
Deborah Silvers
/ April 2, 2010I have lived in Yancey County for 33 years. I have raised three children and have grandchildren growing up here now. I love our County and the people that live here. Counties like ours are rare. Peaceful, laid-back, and neighborly. Let’s keep our town the way it is. Vote NO on April 6th. Alcohol in our county would change everything that we now know and love about the beautiful town we call Burnsville.
Kaitlin
/ April 6, 2010I hope and pray everyday that we wount get it in, we are just a small county. There are only 2 countys left that are dry. Lets vot NO and keep it that way.