The age at which you can first drink alcohol without breaking the law
What is 21?
100
The number of teens who are killed in the US each day in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes
What is 11?
100
The name of the gummy substance formed by millions of tiny particles in cigarette smoke?
What is Tar?
100
What is legal drinking age in California
What is 21?
200
Periodic excessive drinking
What is Binge Drinking?
200
The leading cause of death among teens in the US
What is driving while intoxicated?
200
The number of Americans who, in the past decade, have died in car crashes that resulted from alcohol use
What is a quarter of a million? (250,000)
200
An alcohol related condition in which fat builds up in the liver and cannot be broken down
What is fatty liver?
200
It is against the law in all 50 states to sell cigarettes to anyone under the age of what?
What is 18?
300
What is it called when an individuals blood alcohol level (the percentage of alcohol circulating in the bloodstream) rises to a danger point in which the individual loses consciousness and goes into a coma and in the worst cases, the drinker dies?
Alcohol poisoning
300
A support group for people ages 12 to 20 whose parents, other family members or friends have drinking problems
What is Alateen?
300
The ratio of legally drunk drivers to the total number of drivers on the road after midnight
What is 1:4?
300
A condition in which liver tissue is destroyed and replaced with useless scar tissue
What is cirrhosis?
300
The depressant drug found in some beverages that slows down the central nervous system and harms body organs
What is alcohol?
400
The group of psychoactive drugs that includes alcohol
What are depressants?
400
The approximate number of problem drinkers in the United States between the ages of 14 and 17
What is 5 million?
400
The percent of all teen-involved car crashes that are linked to alcohol
What is 85%
400
The leading cause of intellectual disability in the US
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
400
Excessive use of alcohol invariably leads to major _____
What is brain damage?
500
The chemical action of yeast on sugars
What is fermentation?
500
Physical and mental impairment resulting from the use of alcohol and can range from inability to walk to unconsciousness
What is intoxication?
500
True or False: Beer and wine are safer drinks than "hard" liquors like whiskey
What is False?
500
Alcohol reaches this almost as soon as it is consumed
What is the brain?
500
Alcohol interfere's with this organ's ability to break down fats