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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>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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