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<text id=89TT1918>
<title>
July 24, 1989: American Notes:Trends
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
July 24, 1989 Fateful Voyage:The Exxon Valdez
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 25
American Notes
TRENDS
An Ounce of Prevention
</hdr><body>
<p> Americans may be united on many issues, but they certainly
differ on how to manage their own health and safety. In a
survey of more than 1,000 people in each of 32 states and the
District of Columbia, taken in 1987 and released only last week,
the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta found some vast
disparities:
</p>
<p> In South Dakota 72% of drivers ignore their seat belts; in
safety-conscious Hawaii only 7% say that they fail to buckle up.
</p>
<p> Nearly one-third of Kentuckians smoke, more than twice the
proportion of the clean-living folks in Utah.
</p>
<p> Nearly 30% of Wisconsinites reported they guzzle more than
four drinks at a sitting. But in abstemious New Mexico, only
6.6% are bingers.
</p>
<p> Nearly 60% of Marylanders had their cholesterol checked;
fewer than 30% of New Mexicans bothered.
</p>
</body></article>
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